Spawn Actor Where You Press Help

FallacyStudios

Basically it is exactly as it says. I would like when you press in a location that an actor will spawn there. I have an actor that is stretched along the entire of the scene (1000x1000). It is transparent and is basically there to register when someone touches somewhere. When all the conditions are met and someone clicks the location they would like the actor they are spawning it ALWAYS spawns somewhere within the original 480x320 screen region. I have it set up so that the actor should be spawning on the X&Y location of Device>Touch>X (& Y). It is set to relative to scene in both the direction and the XY area. It just continually spawns in the first 480x320 area.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

JohnPapiomitis

Youll need to add an offset for the camera.

FallacyStudios

@JohnPapiomitis
That sounds like it would be right. I just put a box in there to show me what the touches are registering as and no matter where I scrolled too and clicked on the screen it was always within 480x320.

How would I offset the camera?

JohnPapiomitis

in the spawn behavior for the x position have touch.1.x+camera.origin.x and for they y have touch.1.y+camera.origin.y

you can either have a seperate actor thats unlocked that constrains 2 game attrubutes to the camera x and , or you can unlock the spawn actor and then you can access the scene atrbitues in the spawn behavior

cheers

FallacyStudios

@JohnPapiomitis

Thank you that works well.

poopdecksweeper

Hi guys I wanted to see if the same thing could be done to a "shot" actor? I need the right rules to be able to have the shot go towards my finger, on a scene that is exactly like the one mentioned above. My actor is an alien, and when I touch on the lower part of the screen, the shot ONLY flies towards the lefthand scene (the first 480 pixels of a 960 pixel wide scene).

What are the rules I need to make on my Accelerate angle......right now I have: VectorToAngle(game.touch.X- self.position.X,game.touch.Y-self.position.Y)

I know that I need to offset camera, but how do I do it when the "shot" actor is not on the scene yet because it spawns on touch.

I dont get it

poopdecksweeper

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