Switching scenes causes spawned actors to disappear

tatiang

So I'm finally getting around to creating a game that uses a scene more than once. In my initial scene, I spawn an actor multiple times that then checks for certain conditions and displays text as needed. I have another actor that switches to a text input scene and then back to the initial scene. When that happens and it goes back to the initial scene, the spawned actors are missing. I can tell because (a) my every 1 second --> log debugging statements stop appearing in the log window and (b) my alpha=1 actors no longer appear on the scene.

What's causing this? Do I need to respawn the actors whenever I switch to a scene I've already run? How do I do this without having too many copies of each actor.

In case it's not clear, here's an example: "control" actor spawns four copies of "check answer" actor and then destroys itself. An "input" actor switches to a different scene and then switches back to the initial scene, where the "check answer" actors are no longer there. Even if I turn off the destroy behavior, the "check answer" actors do not get respawned. That last part might be a rule error on my part, but I'm not sure that's the issue.

MotherHoose

is the switch scene done with a Pause Game or Change Scene?

for four checkAnswer actors … think it might be easier to move them on/off screen

@};- MH

tatiang

I'm using a change scene. I had tried it with a pause game and it did work, but I preferred change scene for what I was doing. The thing is, I don't need to ever get rid of the checkAnswer actors. That's the problem... I want them to stay but they disappear when I switch back to their scene.

tatiang

I'm stubborn, I guess. Okay, I replaced it with a pause scene and all is well. I still don't understand why those actors didn't remain, but I'll go with what works.