actor spawn

gotyoursgotyours Member Posts: 246
edited April 2012 in Working with GS (Mac)
hello, todays question. I have set up some actors into a table, that spawn at my level opening- i can only get them to spawn 1 at a time with a timer using random in the table, Question- can i call for them all to load from my table at 1 time and can i pick what column i want them from, i.e. col, 1,5,8,10 sort of thing and can i some how remove the timer

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  • simo103simo103 Posts: 1,331
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    @gotyours ... maybe use the one actor and drag many of them into the scene out of view. Then open each and set their x and y to the columns you want. Or don't open them but in your prototype set the self position x and y to choose randomly from the table.
  • simo103simo103 Posts: 1,331
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    cool glad to help, (P-Force was my first effort playing around with GS a long while ago and was my 12 yr olds direction so it's very rough) ... still pretty new to game development but thanks to a lot of help here am starting to feel pretty comfortable in GS. Re: Tims, sure anytime let me know.

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  • simo103simo103 Member, PRO Posts: 1,331
    @gotyours ... do you need to use spawn? Could you have all the actors you want just off scene at the start and then change their x and y to be in scene at the start? If need be you could spawn further actors after the start if that is what your game play needs. (I have a game I'm working on that does this .. 10 actors drop in at the start and then a spawner release more actors randomly as the game goes on).
  • gotyoursgotyours Member Posts: 246
    am taking there x,y from the table and using 1 actor i think i could do it the way you are talking about but i am not sure how to do it with 1 actor and making them into more then 1, the way i have it set now is with a boolean so when scene start it spawns 1 every sec and then i turn the spawn to false to stop the spawn, and it is random, i want to get the random out so i can re us the table in each lvl with the x, y i want in each lvl
  • gotyoursgotyours Member Posts: 246
    i will give that a try, thanks again,
  • gotyoursgotyours Member Posts: 246
    hey that worked out well, so much better then having them spawn on a timer and i like that i can pick the column, makes programming all the levels so much faster
  • gotyoursgotyours Member Posts: 246
    oh and P-force is kinda cool to, glad to see your from where i am from to many of us on here
  • simo103simo103 Member, PRO Posts: 1,331
    great news ... one day we'll wonder how we ever did it without tables.
  • gotyoursgotyours Member Posts: 246
    i did, love the graphics, you guys are very good, Im only 1 person on this end and still very green, but things are starting to come together now, think i got a good grasp of this thing, and with people like you the stupid questions i have don't seem so embarrassing. Thanks again, maybe next time i am in town we can grab a Tims,
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