How to best select one object when over instances of same object?

[Outcast]

This is a problem I have from time to time and I don't think I don't know what the best solution really is. It feels like it should be possible to do in an easy way, but I have not found a good way.

What I have here are 4 identical objects that overlap and I want to "select" the object that the mouse overlaps, but I only want to select one at a time even though the mouse might actually overlap several at a time. The most "logical" way I find is to insert in the condition to select one object at random, but the problem then is that it selects one object at random every frame so it ends up flickering between all the objects the mouse is overlaping. Is ther any condition instead to do this but keep the same object selected at random and not choose a new one at random at every frame?

If not, what is the best method to do this? I have uploaded an example with the problem

[Outcast]

The best would even be that it choose the object whose hotspot the x and y was closes to, that would feel the most logical as a player when selecting between objects as it would always be the one "closes to the mouse x and y", even though they overlap. Not sure if that is even more complicated though I guess.

[Outcast]

If the hotspot was in the center of the object that is.

[NaitorStudios]

Here's a simple solution

[Outcast]

Here's a simple solution

Thank you! That was very clean and neat!

[Outcast]

Just a slight problem, the animation stops when changing the animation when doing this way? I tried to restore animation frame but it seems it does not work

[Outcast]

Here's a simple solution

Also do you know the "logical" reason to why the animation stops on the global value condition but not on the mouse overlap? I can't see any logical reason why it does it on the first but not on the second :S

[Outcast]

Oh actually it did happen on the original example also. So that is a problem. (Is it possible to edit posts somehow instead of having to add a new post ? :S )

[aenever]

Not sure about the logic but if you add a negated mouse pointer over Active, restore animation frame of Active, it will work.

[aenever]

Is this what you're after?

Select keep frame number on select.mfa