[Solved]How do I - Have the system pick the largest amount

I'm going to assume that I need to be using the System pick conditions, but I can't wrap my head around getting the system to pick "the best" out of all of the selections.

I'm using "System pick sprite where sprite1 HP > sprite2 HP"

and I'm also using "pick sprite1 Nth instance" to pick the first available one but....

I can't wrap my mind around how I would get the system to choose the largest one.

I imagine its something along the lines of.... "For every sprite1...." and maybe ... grab it's HP value, and set it to a Global Var HPVALUE_Max

And then grab another sprite1, and if that value is larger than the previous, replace it... and repeat for all...

Then go to the sprite1 who's HP = HPVALUE_MAX , and of course pick the Nth instance of it incase of multiple's ....?

And then.... use that to "Pick the best" ?

Sorry for my rambling, I think it helped to type it all out.

But I still wonder, is this how you would do it? (Hello reader!)

As usual, I'm just wondering if this is "pretty much correct" and I'm not looking something.

SwatHound

there is a Pick Highest/lowest option under Instance Variables for an object...

so, Sprite > Pick highest/lowest > choose highest and HP

Another way would be

System > For Each (ordered) > Sprite > Sprite.HP Descending then stop the loop after the first one...

but you would only do it that way if you were looking for a value that wasn't an instance variable, like the Sprite with the highest Opacity, or Angle or some other attribute.

SwatHound

there is a Pick Highest/lowest option under Instance Variables for an object...

so, Sprite > Pick highest/lowest > choose highest and HP

Another way would be

System > For Each (ordered) > Sprite > Sprite.HP Descending then stop the loop after the first one...

but you would only do it that way if you were looking for a value that wasn't an instance variable, like the Sprite with the highest Opacity, or Angle or some other attribute.

Ah hahaha. AND THIS IS WHY I ASK QUESTIONS!

THANK YOU! LOL I never .... used that.. function.. haha.. lovely I see it now yes yes... I must have gone over that a thousand times.

Thank you AllanR ...