refrencing question

Okay if I insert a For condition how do I refrence to that object

What exactly do you mean? 'For' condition isn't object

Do you mean "for each object" loop?

Yeah, if you do mean "for each object"

Then it automatically picks each object one at a time, and any actions referring to that objecttype in that event are automatically executed on the currently picked in that loop

Oh I understand now I'm just new to the type of looping in construct sorry if it was to silly to ask.

One more question please

What's the best way to make a homing missile

I've tried storing a variable of the enemy but that didn't work out so well since I can only store strings or numbers in private variables and don't know how to convert that to a family type.

I thought I'd use the family type to find the closest object of that family and move towards it but I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to process objects of a family with a certain name

If you do

+ "Family name": Pick closest to: Sprite.X, Sprite.Y
-> "Family name": - do something -

+ Sprite: On collision between Sprite and "Family"
-> Sprite: Subtract 1 from 'health'

...and for homing missile it depends. You can give your sprite Bullet behavior and set it to

+ System: Always (every tick)
-> Sprite_missile: Set angle towards Sprite_target

Okay I'm going to try this out now thaks for the help, I'm starting to like Constuct alot now

If you want to remember the same target and home on it even when others get closer you could do it like this

Make missle have a private variable called target, with a default of -1

For each missle,

------if target is equal to -1

-----------enemyfamily. - pick closest to missle.x,missle.y

------------------missle, set 'target' to enemyfamilt.uid

For each missle

------if target is not equal to -1

----------enemyfamily, pick by unique id missle('target')

-------------------missle(with bullet behavior). Set angle toward enemyfamily

This would make each missle target one enemy and stick with it till the end, though it'll be a bit trickier if you don't want two missles to ever target the same one

Thanks for the help it's really appreciated.

Just for intrest sake how do I refrence a family that has a space in it's name or should I just make a new family with a _ in it's name instead of spaces?

don't remember if families warks with spaces in between, i don't even remember if use spaces at all in CC ^^. I'm used to insert _ automatically :)