[GM] Help with items

Does anyone know how I'd go about having a player be able to use items like in Super Smash Bros. where you can pick them up and throw them in different directions, without having to make a different sprites for a character with every item. Thanks ahead of time.

Yes, but I dunno if you could get the bob effect that they have while they're holding it. You would just make it so like...

Say you're player was a square, 32x32. You want to make it so the player can pick up an item, and then carry it around. First, you pick a point. Since it's a featureless square, we'll just make it follow the center.

You'd make it so when button _______ is pressed you activate a variable in the item you're picking up. When that variable is active, it follows the position you decided on. Our position is te center of a 32x32 square, so it would go like this:

player.x+16
player.y+16

NOT RELATIVE

These would go in a 'move to position' action inside the object's step event.

Somewhere on the GMC is a tutorial for picking up and carrying objects...
nvm the somewhere, I just found it:
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=265987&hl=

look around on there.

Yeah I had already figured that part out...I guess I wasn't very specific. sorry...but I have that part down, but I did it in GML. I put if     "if self.grabbed = 1 {self.x = Player_1.x self.y = Player_1.y}" But the problem is, is when the player goes to pick it up. I have " if collision_point(x,y,Item,false,false) {Item.grabbed = 1} ". This picks up every instance of the object "Item" thats on screen. I know this is because I put "Item.grabbed = 1" rather than "other.grabbed = 1" But when I try that it doesn't pick it up. Thanks for your help so far. I know I wasn't specific enough. 

Edit:Oh thanks icefllame. I'll check it out to see if it's what I'm looking for.

find it useful?  If not you could always PM one of the GM mentors, their links can be found in the Pins under Novice Q&A on the GMC forums.

Yeah it helped alot, sorry I didn't reply sooner. I was busy.