REPLICATE behaviour is buggy

Tbone

I'm having a problem with the replicate behaviour. It doesn't seem to run straight from go anymore.

I have an actor that is replicated 5 times. When I run the scene it doesn't display.. until I do soemthing else, move an actor, press a button etc

Weird. Anyone else come across this? It was working fine under 8.9

joshcal

yup, i have this exact same problem. if you find a fix please let me know

RevoltingPeasant

Hey Tbone

Yeah, this is a known problem and has been reported:
http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=13234

It seems to put the actor and its replications all the way to the back of the scene. If there's nothing behind it, it works fine...

RP

Tbone

Cheers. Interesting.

I've just tried putting the actor with replicate in its own layer and it works fine. If I then move it back to its original layer it disappears again.

Luckily this will be okay for me in this instance as a work around - I've got this actor displaying lives so is part of the HUD but it'll be a problem when I get to replicating backdrop stuff.

RevoltingPeasant

I'll have to try that, I also want to display the lives...but JGary321 wrote (in the other post) that layers don't solve the problem. Damn "real" job, I wanna get home and test this!

chrisal

Tested and it works if it is it's own layer, many many thanks for the tip

RevoltingPeasant

home sweet home. yup, works in layers. nice.
but can I copy layers with all of its contents into a new scene? can't seem to do that..?
thanks
RP

CodeMonkey

Thanks for catching that.

Edit: More specifically it is only the top most actor that has the replicate behavior that is affected.
Adding another actor in the same layer above it with a replicate behavior will also fix it.

azavega

yeap I already try that but then i need 3 actors, when for real I only need two! someway too fix this?