How do I pick the second-most nearest object?

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- samuelbromley
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Hi all

I am making a game with a bullet object that looks for the nearest enemy. This works.

But, how do i target the second-most nearest, and even third-most, so that I can fire at them at the same/similar time.

Do you have a suggestion?

Thanks
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- winkr7
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once you have the UID of the first closest, take it out of the SOL and go again. Then take the first two out and go again. There is probably a more efficient way by ordering them by distance and then taking the top 3.

yours winkr7
- R0J0hound
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I often use for each ordered to do that. Here it would shoot at the 3rd closet. This method is also useful when you want to do stuff with the n closest like it sounds like you are.
For each enemy ordered by distance(player.x,player.y,enemy.x,enemy.y)ascending Loopindex+1=3 — stop loop — shoot
- samuelbromley
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thanks both! got it working thanks to your input.