Counting Particles

From the manual:

"Note that due to the way Construct 2 expressions work, if you have multiple Particle object instances, this will only return the particle count for one of the instances - use a For Each loop to count multiple instance's total particle count."

How?

I have put my particle generators into a family so that I can use a For Each loop, and I have a text box that is set to count the total number of particles, but it's only showing me one instance. I've also tried using 'add' instead of 'set', and I just get an ever increasing number.

I know this should be pretty simple, but I just can't seem to get my head around it.

Would this work?

system every tick set global variable ParticleCount to 0

system for each particle object

trigger once

• add object.particlecount to global variable ParticleCount

system every tick set text: ParticleCount

Would something like this do the trick ?

I didn't put any evaluation every tick, just made a function to count with a local variable. P1 and P2 (particle spawners) have different rates, I display the respective count, and the total.

Interesting... it seems you have to use the add command, as well as using a static local variable.

Thanks everybody!