Individual actor no wrap

sparkzilla

Hi,

I have some actors that I want to wrap (come back on the other side of the screen) and some that I don't. Is it possible to make it so that an individual actor in a scene does not wrap?

LordTarantor

You might put a wall and put a collide with tag and put all the actors you do not want to wrap in that group or tag.

sparkzilla

Actually I didn't explain well. I have an actor that has particles trailing behind it. If the actor gets too close to the left-hand side then the particles appear on the other side. I'm going to try to make a layer that covers that side and is over the particle actor but under the other actors. Any other ideas most welcome.

sparkzilla

that didn't work because the particles and the actor are in the same level :-(

sparkzilla

I'm back to this question again. Any ideas most appreciated.

spliket

i would suggest doing your wrapping with rules instead of having it set globally.

so, if you're making a landscape game, create 2 rules like this :

RULE 1:
if
self.position.X < 0
and
self.linearVelocity.X < 0 (this makes sure the actor is going to the left - otherwise, the wrap rules would just bounce the actor back and forth)

then
change self.position.X to 480

RULE 2:
if
self.position.X > 480
and
self.linearVelocity.X > 0

then
change self.position.X to 0

you may have to change some of the numbers to get the actor to fully go off screen before wrapping (this depends on the size of your actor of course.

sparkzilla

Thanks for your help. I appreciate it!

sparkzilla

Just actually got round to using this and it works perfectly, thanks again.