Particle Question!

FrontRoomGames

So im working on a maze game and my charcatare is a mouse and since the mazes will be big when someone needs to back track i want the mouse to leave a trail that looks like mouse dropping..

but i cant figure out how to make the trails particles where they dont move and it spawns one every so many seconds. is this possible?

LoneTreeInteractive

There may be a way to do this with particles (and just have a very long particle lifetime) but you may be better off having a timer that spawns a dropping actor every x-many seconds.

Hope this helps!

FrontRoomGames

there wont be hundres it will be like every 5-10 seconds it will drop one maybe 20 a scene at onces IF that

scitunes

you may want to also play around with a rule in the dropping that says if it overlaps with another dropping that it destroys itself. This way you won't get a huge pile of droppings. That would be pretty smelly. Oh add it would cause there to be a bunch of unnecessary actors if the player decides to have the mouse stay still for awhile. Just a thought.

dmilinovichiii

In the main actor
set a timer to every 5 seconds
in timer spawn actor (whatever you want to drop) at self.x and self.y

Make sure the actor you are using for the dropped particles is set to not move.