Need help, don't want actors to spawn in the camera zone

liamo

hi guys, how would you make it so that the actors with random spawning behaviors don't spawn in the camera zone, i have pits and rocks and it wouldn't be good if they spawned right underneath or behind the actor. My game is an endless run and jump game.

cheers.

Asymptoteell

Make it spawn to random(camera origin x+a distance greater than scene width, camera origin x + a distance greater than last distance)

That should do it.

Asymptoteell

liamo

thank you

Asymptoteell

Sure thing.

liamo

Asymptoteell said:
Make it spawn to random(camera origin x+a distance greater than scene width, camera origin x + a distance greater than last distance)

That should do it.

Asymptoteell

What do you mean a distance greater than scene width?

Asymptoteell

The width of your scene, 420 if it's for iPhone. You need a number bigger than that.

liamo

my scene is 2360 for width, a number bigger than that? or a number bigger than the camera width, sorry if i am not getting it and thank you for your patience.

liamo

Bump

liamo

Double bump

liamo

Triple bump, A number bigger than the camera width or the scene width of 2360?

part12studios

can you setup some kind of exclusion? for example.. allow spawns to occur anywhere inside the 2360, but wherever the camera is, don't allow..

might even be two dynamic spawn areas.. one to the left and right of the camera.. each time a spawn occurs, it checks where the camera is in relation to the whole scene.. i'm still learning a lot of this myself, but maybe this is possible?

good luck!