Actor Disappearing!

tiger27

I'm creating a game and it's been going great! Only problem being that an actor, when spawned, totally disappears. The game is wrapped in both x and y, x being needed and y making a huge and awesome addition to the game. Please help!

RabidParrot

@tiger27

Do you have gravity in the scene? Do you have any rules in the actor that affect the color.alpha channel?

tatiang

Check to see if the x and y positions in the Spawn Actor behavior are relative to actor or to scene. Something like x=200 y=400 relative to actor will spawn the actor 200 pixels to the right and 400 pixels above the spawner actor.

tiger27

I don't have any gravity in my scene (I replicate it with move down, but not for everything.) and (to answer @tatiang ) I spawn everything relative to scene.

tatiang

In terms of troubleshooting whether this is a problem with the way you have your scene, actors, and rules set up or just a problem with your version of GameSalad, what happens when you create a new (blank) project file, create a new actor (Actor 1), create another new actor (Actor 2), give Actor 1 a Spawn Actor behavior to spawn Actor 2 at x=100, y=100 relative to scene, and then drag Actor 1 onto the scene and Preview?

If that does NOT work, can you upload the project folder to a file-sharing site and post the download link here?

tiger27

@tating, I just realized that there might be a misunderstanding. It's not that the actor dosen't appear, it's that it appears, and then goes away. Hope that clears that up. (If it wasn't clear already.) I'll still try what you mentioned above though. I'll get back to you.

tiger27

Solved!

tatiang

@tiger27 said:
Solved!

Awesome! Can you tell us what fixed it?

tiger27

All I did was, I realized there was a block on the other end that I had coded to destroy the actor, so I created another block that collided with the actor, making it not hit the destroy block until it reached the top.

tatiang

Ah, okay thanks.

tiger27

No problem.