I am making an atomic simulator game, and I found myself a at coder's block, as I can't seem to find a way to allow a clone to detect the costume number/name of another clone that it's touching.
The entire basis of Fusion in my simulator is based off of detecting costume numbers to check for compatibility.
If anyone has a workaround, it would be very appreciated

Thanks!

I'm afraid you'll have to do all the hard work for this. You'll need to assign each clone an id when they are created and keep its costume# in a list. You can then look up each clones costume in the list.

If you know previously the total amount of clones you will need, then you can make two lists, one with the number Id of the clones and the other the assigned custom.
If you don't know it, you must create a variable increasing by 1 every time a new Clone is created, and the Store it in a list as Clone Id numbers.. In my last proyect you can see an example:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10283711/
Look at the sun-rays way of generate clones
Wish it helps

Sorry, instead of custom read costume
:-)

You can make all your clones the same color and make them sense that color. for example:

Instead of doing:

When green flag clicked:
Forever:
If touching (sprite name here):
(Whatever)

Do this:

When green flag clicked:
Forever:
If touching color (sprite color here):
(Whatever)

Hope that helps.

Here is a sample project that shows how to track the status of clones.
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/11112307/

eastons

How do I get a ship to dissapear when varible at 4

If you are using one sprite, then do this:

when green flag clicked
forever
if <(variable) > [3]> then
hide
end
end

If you are using clones, you would have to make clone IDs for each on to keep track of which clone disappears