Odd spawn behaviour??

Sparkyidr

http://gamesalad.com/game/play/34302

is this normal? or am I just being really thick

I have an actor with a rule saying every 3 secs, spawn one to a random screen pos.
But rather than spawning 1, it seems to spawn an exponential number of them.

Sparkyidr

anyone????

jonmulcahy

how are your rules setup? how many actors?

To do what you'd want, I'd have 2 actors, the Spawner and the Actor, and have rules like this:

Spawner:
Timer - Every 3 Seconds
Spawn Actor at position ^ random(0,320) relative to scene > random(0,480) relative to scene

Actor:
do whatever

(the ^ and > are the two fields that represent where you want the actor to spawn, you may want numbers with a smaller range, 0,480 will have your actors spawn so that only 1/2 of them may be seen (at the very endges of the phone)

Sparkyidr

Thanks Mulcahy....yeah, I was kind of misunderstanding the spawn behaviour a little. Now I have had a thought about it (and you have confirmed it) having a "Spawner" actor is deffo what I need. )

brill.