Copying variables from one object to other

[Goldenhog]

Hi, I came here to ask about something that's practically stopping the development of my fangame.

The problem is this: I have two objects, one called "Boom" and the other called "Bam". "Boom" has all of its variables(from A to Z) defined with values. "Bam" does not. BUT, if I want to copy all the "Boom"'s variables in "Bam" when both collide with each other, how do I do it?

Other problem I encountered is the next one: I have a Health Bar in turn-based battle, I want that health bar to switch between the both playable character's health in their respective turns. How do I do that?

[cimics]

I don't know if there is an easier way, but you can always do this:

On collision
--> set Alt A (Bam) to Alt A (Boom)
--> set Alt B (Bam) to Alt B (Boom)

and so on

[Simon]

Hi! You could achieve this with a fastloop and referencing the variables by index and not by name...

If you go to set a variable of an active, for example, you'll notice that next to the name there is a button with "Use Expression" in it. Using this you can set a value by it's index, so "Alterable Value A" is index 0, "...B" is 1, and so on. Similarly, when selecting variables from an object you can use the "Alterable Value By Index" function to retrieve them.

A fastloop would look like this:

start loop "copy" 26 times

on loop "copy", set value by index [loopindex("copy")] in object a to value by index [loopindex("copy")] in object b

What you have to remember to do is select the objects each time in the fastloop because the objects which collided will only be selected in the event which calls the fastloop. To do this, you might say on collision of bam and boom, store bam's fixed number in global value a, and boom's fixed number in global value b. Then, in the fast loop you can add the conditions: select by fixed number (bam) using global value a, and then the same but with global value b for boom.

[Corlen]

Simon's solution would work wonders and save you a lot of time.