howto Spawn random actors?

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• PixelRyan Member Posts: 17

  December 2010

  I was wondering about spawning random patterns in my game, here is what I ended up with, not sure if its the best way. Make an integer attribute named Random Number. Do a change attribute rule and change Random Number to "random(1,50)" to pick a number 1-50. Then when you want to spawn something from the list of 50 have a bunch of rules checking for if random is equal to 1 then spawn this one, etc.,etc.,
• Stormtrix Member Posts: 256

  December 2010

  Take a look at these tshirtbooth demos -- this is what i use as a foundation for randomizing things.
  
  http://gamesalad.com/game/1621
  
  http://gamesalad.com/game/1627
• jonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408

  December 2010

  yea, do exactly what pixelRyan said, pick a random number, and then have rules that say
  
  if number = 1
  spawn actor1
  
  if number = 2
  spawn actor2
  
  but, to keep memory down, you're better off hiding all the actors offscreen, and then MOVING them into the camera's view depending on the number, spawning and destroying is very taxing on memory
• Stormtrix Member Posts: 256

  January 2011

  Or if you are just spawning one actor out of the 50
  Then you could do what I did for my one card poker game.
  Create just one actor to spawn an in the actor
  Have this. Create an integer attribute called something like random
  
  Change attribute. Self.random to random(1,50)
  
  Change attribute. Self.image to floor(self.random)..".png"
  
  Just name all your images like 1.png, 2.png etc.
• guru-at-zidware Member Posts: 369

  January 2011

  ok..great let me try that..!