Spawn only one actor at a time?

kungfupanda99

k so im working on a game where when you shake the device it spawns an actor but I only want one actor on the screen at a time so each time the user shakes it again I want it to be replaced with a different random actor any ideas?

tatiang

I assume from your post that you don't want to just change the image, but the entire actor. The most consistent approach would be to have one actor that just changes its image (and/or size) and its rule index and then have rules based on specific rule index values. The other way would be to destroy and spawn actors probably with a delay so that you can't just shake and have it destroy/spawn every 0.1 seconds.

lukey5227

Have a global variable of "Shake". Whatever spawns the actor, make sure right before that it changes "Shake" to true if its false and to false if its already true.

In the actor, have "Shake" also. Do a Change Attribute "Self.Shake" to "Game.Shake". That way, make a rule saying "If Self.Shake ≠ Game.Shake" meaning its been shaken, "Destroy this actor".

Then, it should of already spawned another actor.

Hope I helped! -5227

Poole

sure, The most consistent approach would be to have one actor that just changes its image (and/or size) and its rule index and then have rules based on specific rule index values.

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