Multiple Actor Spawn

Brundi

Hi, this questing is going to sound very dumb but here it goes

Is there a way to instantly spawn multiple actors in a line like this:

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (but squares)

Across a 5000 width screen almost touching each other

Thank you for all your answers, Brandon

tatiang

Place a spawner actor at the right edge of the scene. Then add these rules:

Spawner actor
Timer every 0.3 seconds spawn actor [actor name]

Spawned actor

Move direction [180] speed [200]

If you adjust the timer duration and the speed, you should be able to get it working the way you want it.

Brundi

yes, but I just want them to spawn in there positions and not move

tatiang

Ah, okay. So more like spawning tiles for a background. You can use a loop to do this, where you move the spawning actor the width of a spawned actor plus a little more (so if your tile actors are 30 pixels wide, you would move the spawner 34 pixels, say, and then continue spawning).

I have a Study of Loops demo that offers a few ways to loop. http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/381275/#Comment_381275. A much easier solution is to use the Release Candidate of Creator (http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/66101/release-candidate-0-11-0-2-is-available/p1), which includes a Loop behavior. For now, it's only available for Mac, though.

Brundi

Im using a windows machine

hbproph

me to

Brundi

I found a way

In the first actors PROTOTYPE put spawn actor in the detection you want

Then make an Boolean attribute called "actor spawn"

When you want it to stop but another actor in the place you want it to stop and say when actor overlaps or collides with the second actor set the Boolean attribute to false

It might lag a bit at first but it works!