How do I change the animation for each member in family

I'm using a mechanism to change the animations based on direction for my sprites. I'd like to use the same logic for all my NPC animations, and ideally all animations in general.

NPCs work great, when there is only one on the screen. But, when there is two and they move in different directions, everything gets weird.

Here is what I have so far.

You need to pick using the family. Replace the npc controller object with the Animations family.

You are absolutely right, I had to account for the fact that my npc can't have a controller separate from the Animations unless I had the controller attached to the animation, which doesn't make sense.

Here is the result: