How to refer to Instance varibale?(similar to self.variable)

Hello.

Each of instance has an instance variable called "animation_number".

I need to get acces to this variable through expression, similar to:

sprite.animation_number (certainly not with a dot...)

Is there any way to acces this instance variable that way?

Like... sprite.variable(animation_number) or anyway??

Thanks a lot for any advise.

Why would you want to access it another way?

If you explain the problem and why this is an issue, then we can help more.

Sure thanks

I am building a beat'em up game.

I want to put all "enemy" characters into one sprite, where number represents an enemy type animation (1-monster, 2-zombie, 3-soldier), like this:

1_moving

2_moving

3_moving

1_standing

2_standing

3_standing

1_was_killed

2_was_killed .... etc.

When "on start of layout" I want to put random sprites on the stage, I make a random number to each instance of an enemy (called "character_type"), and then based on that, I want to use animation based triggers, to do something with the sprite, for example:

"enemy" On animation "was_killed" finished => do some explosion, or whatever...

Now, I should be able to have it rather like that:

"enemy" On animation self.type & "_was_killed" finished => do some explosion, or whatever...

Why do I do that in a such a twisted way: because that way I can define all behaviours for one sprite. Otherwise, if I create 20 different enemy types I will have to have 20 different actions/interactions defined. And if I have to alter something in their code, I will have to update 20 sprites, not just one.

I hope it makes sense what I am typing

Thanks a lot again!

Make a separate sprite for each enemy type, but put them all in the same family.

You can then use variables/actions at the family level, so that you only need to write your code once, rather than 20 times for each one.

Another way would be to define a function, and then call that function from each enemy. Again, that way you're writing code only once but reusing it in several places.

Hope that helps.

Try this tutorial

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/9423/i ... -variables