How to match sprite instance based on Animation Frame?

Hi All,

I have the following game:

The objective is to drag and drop the matching pairs together and when they have been matched, they can be destroyed (I'll add further effects later).

The sock is a single Sprite with each frame being a different sock colour:

I've tried multiple times to get the sock instances to compare their animation frames but I'm unable to get this very simple concept to work.

After reading quite a few forum posts, the solution seems to point towards using Families. However, I'm not currently subscribed and can't commit at the moment to the cost. Is there a way to do this without families?

You can compare an instance against itself using scripting, which is supported in the first version.

I made a working example for you:

Project file: dropbox.com/scl/fi/zd8tul71sustcxvbt98t5/Socks.c3p

Another option is to pick the first sock, save its frame in a variable. Then pick the second sock and compare its frame with the saved value in the variable.

Thanks to both for your time, I really appreciate the fact that you even created a working example for me BigBuckBunny.

Apologies for my ignorance, but using BigBuckBunny's example, I can't seem to get both instances of the sock to be destroyed - it's only ever the target that get destroyed. How can I reference each sock instance?

Similarly, with your suggestion dop2000, that was my original avenue but again struggled to reference or detect the two specific instances:

dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8w77ueu4fq4gti3hexf4/Socks.c3p

Thanks dop2000, working exactly how I'd hoed it would. 'nth instance' was the missing key. Feel like you've pretty much single headedly created the main code for this game.