How to minimize events for mutiple charaters

Ok Im not sure if the title is descriptive enough and was having trouble searching in the forum for something similar.

Basically I have a working character selection for a platformer with three characters, maybe more latter on. I wanted to minimize the number of events for using up memory or space for each charters.

So i made one general sprite and set of control events for that; plus separate sprites for each charter for simplicity.

How do i switch those characters objects in and out of the general sprite to work with the control event so i don't have to make the same event for each character?

Tried variable switching but couldn't figure that out. I can spawn another object by variables and delete the general sprite but that probably wont work with the general control event.

Would an array work? i don't know.

Thanks in advance for any insight.

Add the characters into a Family called Characters. Then you can trigger events that apply to every character.

set the different characters as animation frames of only 1 sprite. create the events for the character sprite and choose the appropriate animation frame for the chosen character.

Thanks guys.

You can also use the Function plugin for things that all of the bots will share too.

If everyone shoots bullets, you can have the bullet setup all in 1 function "shootBullet". Rather than having the action blocks for the "add bullet sprite", "add muzzle flash sprite", "reduce nearest bot ammo -1","PLay bullet shoot sound", "alert friendly player bots to gunshot location"...

You can see it adds up really quick.

I put off learning the function plugin until recently. I wish I would have read about it first, it would have saved me a lot of time debugging all my copypasta.

also, when copying the events for one player to the next, the "replace object" options really comes in handy!