1 container plus 2 instances of a single object?

Hi all, I hope someone is able / willing to help me out here..

I have a spaceship object, it needs to have 2 cannons mounted on it , both of the same appearance. The cannon has a large animation frame count.

The 2 cannons need to animate independently.

If I put the spaceship and a single cannon in a container, is there any way to create a second instance of the same cannon, without creating a second object with the same frames?

No, not possible. One container - one instance of each object.

You need to remove the cannon object from the container and add SpaceshipUID instance variable.

When your spaceship is created, create 2 instances of cannon and set Cannon.SpaceshipUID =Spaceship.UID for them.

Now you can identify which cannon belongs to which ship and vice versa.

Thanks, I assumed this would be the case..

If you wanted to keep the cannon in a container, maybe just make the spaceship create a clone of the cannon on load?

Nexis717 , if you create a clone of the cannon, another clone of the ship will be created.

Nexis717 , if you create a clone of the cannon, another clone of the ship will be created.

This, my friend, is very true