Spawing around the edges of the iDevice

romma

Hi guys

I'm working on my first game, and one of the core values of it is that I have random actors "poping out" around the entire border of the iDevice. I can schieve this easily by having 4 actors of the same "graphic" each for top, left, right and bottom, but adding more characters will make things work slugish, is there a way with just 1 character?

The characters have a behavior of Interpolate the Y position so when I spawn them they "animate in"

Hope I made myself clear, any help would be appreciated!

MotherHoose

for 4 actorInstances with specified 4 location of screen left; right; top; bottom
recycle should work better than spawn

http://gshelper.com/?p=416

just name the instances appropriately for location


Rule: when:
Attribute: self.Name = left
--changeAttribute: self.Image To:
-- or changeAttribute: self.Rotation To:
Otherwise:
--Rule: when self.Name=right
(etc.)

good you are using tables!

MH

calvin9403

Well, you can go inside the edit scene and unlock the actors there, then you can change them(ex:put different behaviors in each)

romma

I did it using different X and Y coords in a table then cycling thru the cells for values, in th elong run it was going to be better.