Hello Nabu, thank you for your advice I really appreciate it.

I think I understand what you mean.

Now at the moment I don't have acccess to my computer since I am at work but as soon as I'll get home I will try to pass the UID to the following functions via function parameter and return value. I have to admit I didn't try that one.

Thank you again for your help, I will let you know whether I was successfull or not.

Edit:

Thanks to your input Nabu I found 2 ways of making this work, the first and simpliest was to add a wait event right after calling my "spawn_ship"-function.

I followed your suggestion though to work with the UID as a retrun value which also works just fine and is in my oppnion the more elegant way of solving this:

Okay, I am desperate, I tried for some days to figure out how to address an individuall sprite and alter its instance variable 'angle' but nothing works.

Here is what I have done so far to create my game:

What it is supposed to do is:

When I press the 'F'-Button i want to spawn a sprite and then call further functions to set some instance variables of the just create sprite.

I want for example to set the angle of the the red team's sprites to 180 degree.

Now, when I press 'F' the sprite is created but its angle is not changed:

It changes only the moment I create a second sprite by pressing 'F' again:

What did I do wrong?

How can I change the angle of the first sprite without having to press F again and spawn a second one?

I already tried to use several pick conditions for the functions 'setFactionRed' and 'set_Tri-Fighter' like for example "pick highest instance variable PilotIDNumber" or pick via "comparing PilotIDNumber to global variable latestSHIPID" but both didn't work.

Thank you very much for your time invested.