...pick every object in a container from one uid?

How would one pick every object in a container on-hit? e.g. to flash all of the sprites of a composite object to imply damage.

Premise:

* Using spriter animations.

* All sprites are members of a container, as automatically created on import.

* Collision box has also been added to said container.

* Collision boxes are also members of a family, which triggers the on-hit event.

So I can pick the collision box on-hit, but how do I get from there to picking all of the sprites in its container and apply some visual effect to them?

As far as I understand picking one object inside a container picks all objects inside of it.

If you want actions on the different objects in a container you have to set them seperately for each object.

So - on collision-box hit, set arm to invisible, set body to fade, set eyes to scale 40, set feet to animation "explode"

Thanks for the response!

That makes sense, but my problem is that I don't want to set individual parameters for each picked sprite on hit; rather, I want to apply one effect to all sprites in the container.

So my game gets to the state where the collision box has picked everything in the container - how can I set an event that will affect all of those picked sprites without having to reference each one explicitly?

Well, I figured out a solution that's working so far using two families, one that contains all of the enemy sprites and another that contains their collision boxes. The sprites family has a collisionUID variable to store the UID of its appropriate collision box.

<img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/637894/forums/pick1.png" border="0" />

<img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/637894/forums/pick2.png" border="0" />

Assigning the collision box's UID by distance using "pick nearest to" and iterating through every sprite to check which ones need the flashing effect both seem a little sloppy to me. Maybe there's a better a way? For the moment though, I'm just happy to have something that works.

Given the container instantiates all the contained objects, this is how I solved for my game:

(container object) is flashing

trigger once while true

--------------------------------------------------------> (objects family) Flash