spawning

AppsforCameron

Ok so I'm making a game that requires spawning the actor once, once touched. I can't seem to figure out how I only get the actor to spawn once and not every time the actor is touched.
Thanks

gyroscope

Hi AppsforCameron; that's quite straightforward, you need a "switch", so a scene boolean attribute will do the job, called Spawnfinished or something.

So in the Rules of your spawning actor:
When all conditions are true
When touch is pressed
When Spawnfinished is false

spawn your actor to position you want.

Change attribute Spawnfinished to true.

If there is more than one actor which can spawn once, you'll need a different boolean attribute for each one, of course; SpawnFin01, SpawnFin02, etc perhaps.
;-)

AppsforCameron

Yah I'm working on my first app and creating attributes is not my thing.(for now) Anyways thanks.

gyroscope

Understood, no point rushing into it if you've just started with GS, but believe me, attributes are your friends; there's just so much stuff that can be done with them. But I'm sure you'll get round to learning about them quite soon. And as you've probably gathered, this is a buzzing Forum, there's always someone around if you need more help.

I'm guessing you've found the tutorials/how to's? If not, work logically through them and you'll learn fast:

http://gamesalad.com/wiki/

There are also some excellent tutorials by Tshirtbooth & Weswog

http://www.youtube.com/user/GameSaladCookbook

http://www.youtube.com/user/Weswog

(Apologies to you guys who have also made video tutorials which I can't remember...)

Happy game making!

:-)