System Create object by name for specific family

Hello,

I have 2 families, Enemy, Friendly with the same objects in each of them (Soldier, Catapult in example)

How can I create a catapult of family Friendly? I hoped for something like "Enemy.Catapult" but i cannot find something like that in the manual or tutorials.

If I cannot create (same) objects for different families, I do not understand why I would ever use two families if I have to dynamically create objects in the game.

Many thanks

Nico

Oh right if it's the same object type in both of those families then it probably won't work correctly, depending on how the game is, but I imagine it won't. You use families to apply the same logic to multiple objects, not for creating 'for a family'. I would return to the isFriendly variable and ignore families altogether for this game and just be careful with the picking.

You shouldn't use families for spawning like that. what you can do is:

local number UID = 0

decide to spawn catapult / melee

create catapult / soldier

set UID to catapult / melee.UID

then pick friendly with variable UID

set isFriendly to differentiate between Friendly Unit and Enemy unit

treat both objects the same...

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P.S.:

when you create a catapult, it will automatically be a member of BOTH families (all families that you assigned it to), so you can pick either friendly or enemy with UID

Also: the Familiies dont help to differentiate between enemy/friend if both objects are in both families.

Thank you.

It sounds awfully much effort for a very simple condition. The goal is that if a unit is in range of another unit which has a different isfriendly value of this unit, the fight animation is played.

I try this now for 2 days and cant get it done :- (

Reluctantly I did it now the (very) ugly way... How to optimise that, i was sure in construct someone manages that with 2 conditions or so ;- )