I've been looking for weeks now for anything that can help me figure out how to switch characters. This is my first game and I have ZERO coding experience. I thought I would make it a little more dynamic by adding "skins". They're technically just different sprites.

Here's my problem... When I try to use a different character, the platform behavior stops working. I've tried visible/invisible, setting group behaviors, system create object, containers. I even tried one of these skin plugins which basically gave me the same result as a container. I've even tried to make separate layout but somehow it's not reading the global variable boolean I have set to take it to the playstate2 layout.

I've read about dictionaries and arrays but just not grasping how that is any less work than simply duplicating the character 1 events and replacing with character 2, which hasn't worked either.

Anyway, sorry so long. If you could help me figure out how this would help that would be amazing.