How do I get more than one of the same sprite.

Minstrel

Hello forums! I have a question that is so basic you'll probably laugh at it, but I know you will help:
How do I get more than one of the same sprite. And don't say repeatedly doing

(sprite) = Bitmap.new(Texture.new("ship.png")) stage:addChild(playership1)

I mean writing one piece then if you were to say do:

(sprite):setScale(2.0)

It would change the scale of all the sprites.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: BTW The sprite is being made in an animation and ideally I would like all childs of the sprite to be animated.
Animate code:

local anim1 = {} anim1[1] = Bitmap.new(Texture.new("invader2.png")) anim1[2] = Bitmap.new(Texture.new("invader.png"))   local animation = MovieClip.new{ {1,40, anim1[1]}, {40,100, anim1[2]}, anim1[1]:setScale(0.3) }   animation:setPosition(0,-5) stage:addChild(animation) animation:setGotoAction(100, 1)   animation:gotoAndPlay(1)

pie

you can write an Invader class inheriting from Sprite where you put the animation code, then with a for loop you place them all on screen.

Invader = Core.class(Sprite)   function Invader:init() --this method corresponds to Invader.new() --I assume the animation code is working local anim1 = {} anim1[1] = Bitmap.new(Texture.new("invader2.png")) anim1[2] = Bitmap.new(Texture.new("invader.png"))   local animation = MovieClip.new{ {1,40, anim1[1]}, {40,100, anim1[2]}, anim1[1]:setScale(0.3) }   animation:setPosition(0,-5) self:addChild(animation) --adding animation to Invader instance, not to stage animation:setGotoAction(100, 1)   animation:gotoAndPlay(1) end   local maxInvaders = 5 --how many invaders to place on screen     local invaders = {} --as we did for bullets: an array collecting a serie of sprites references invadersLayer = Sprite.new() -- a sprite to put on stage, where you can add all your invaders together so that you can just edit this, and move/scale all sprites together stage:addChild(invaderLayer)   local paddx = 50 --x distance between invaders for i=1, maxInvaders do --from 1 to maxInvaders, place on invadersLayer invaders[i] = Invader.new() --create one instance of Invader class invaders[i]:setX(paddx*i) --set its x position according to its "number" i invadersLayer:addChild(invaders[i]) --add this instance of Invader to invadersLayer   end

I didn't test this but I think it should work.
I leave to you the code to place them on different lines

Minstrel

Do I write this in a separate .lua? And what do you mean by "I leave to you the code to place on different line"?

Minstrel

Ok NVM Prev comment. I used your code as a temp than made several tweaks to it: etc. all sprites moving across the screen scaling eg.

Thanks for your time!