Lines connecting multiple objects

[Mr_A]

I'm trying to make a "match X gems" game, and I would like to make a line that connects each selected gem to the next one.

gem-segment.jpg

I'm working with the clever example posted by Popcorn here , that stretches and rotates a square active object using the calculations of Clickteam Movement Controller and the fixed values of the two balls to connect.
The issue is that I have to connect more than two gems and they're basically the same object (they have the same qualifier/group), so I'm having a hard time telling Fusion which fixed value it should use.


So far I managed to create a "segment" for each "gem". The idea was to set the alterable value A of segment to the fixed value of its gem, and then to do
if segment's alterable value A = gem's fixed value => set position of segment to position of gem
For some reason it's not working, when I move the gems around the segments stay where they are.

I also managed to increment a counter of 1 unit every time the mouse moves on a new gem, and set the selected gem's alterable value N to this counter value. This way I've got the "selection order" of the gems (the first clicked gem has 1, the second has 2 and so on).
Then I need to pass this value to that gem's segment, but since the condition above is not working I can't.

My masterplan was to do something like
If segment's alterable value N = selected gem's alterable value N -1 => scale segment's X to distance between segment and selected gem etc...


Do you guys have any better idea, or do you know what I'm doing wrong?

[Sparckman]

how about using actual images of lines in different angles - if they are overlapping 3 gems they blow up.

[Mr_A]

Actually I've got no problem blowing the gems up, what I want to achieve is a similar effect to the first image.
Also I can't have the lines already drawn because my gems won't be positioned in a grid, so the angles won't be necessarly 90 or 45°.

[Popcorn]

Hey, it seems to me like what you're doing might work if you attach a ForEach loop to it!
I do have several examples of attaching multiple objects, but they all are at my main computer and I am at holidays now.
I can mock up a general example for you if needed.

[Mr_A]

It would be awesome to have something to look at, thank you.