Spawned Actor!!!

dade6

Hi everybody!!!!
I'm trying to make an action game, where the monsters that the player have to fight are spawned randomly.
For better collision and fighting system i need to create an actor called weapon wich have the position constrained to the spawned monster.
In other words, if the spawns ten monster i need to know the of all ten monsters
So the question is: how do i read data from a spawned?

thank you

dade6

is there anybody?

MagoNicolas

U need game attributes, 10 diferent attributes and actors.

dade6

But what if have an indeterminate number of monster?
thank you anyway

dade6

i need to create an array or something like that, but, how?!

dade6

anybody have any ideas?
please help me

magic101hi

dade6 said:
i need to create an array or something like that, but, how?!

Arrays are not supported in GameSalad 0.9.0.

-Josh

dade6

So the conclusion is that it's not possible to do what i've asked before?

Slowboy

Hi Dade, it's not impossible, but as Nicolas said, you'll need to track each monster invidually with it's own set of rules and attributes. If you really want an indeterminate number of monsters then you should probably look at limiting it somehow, so that you know what you're getting, and this would also allow you to keep a grip on the performance.
Start solving your problems with only 3 monsters - pretend your game will only EVER have 3 monsters!
Once that's working nicely, go to 10!
You may be able to sort out a system where you have 'max monsters on screen = 10, 20, 30 or whatever' then another live monster will only get spawned once another monster has died - one out, one in.
Hope there's some food for thought there?
Cheers
Wayne

dade6

Hi slowboy thank you for your explanations and advices. I've already managed to do with limited number of monster... But that's not the experience of game i've wanted to create.
I'll wait 'till it will be possible to use arrays, in the meantime i'll try another way for programming my game
see ya.