Random spawning with a twist

I know this is probably an easy one...

I have a sprite I want to spawn at one of N locations randomly. No big that was easy. Now I need to set the animation to equal an text string that is contained in the spawn points instance vars. Any one know how to catch a reference to the sprite that was just created so I can set the properties?

do it in the same event as the spawn from Nth Location, the details should be available from both.

ie

event on something next action is triggered:

action1: spawnpoint spawn spawnedthing

action2: set spawnedthing.animation(spawnpoint.textstring)

That works like a charm! Your a rockstart lennaert!

^_^ your welcome

I recently applied the same technique for an exact same situation :D

Eventually I even added more animations, and had my spawn point string set a value chosen random from a list of strings.

set spawnpoint.textvariable = choose("animation1","animation2","animation3")

you can add as many as you like :)

Good luck