Actor stop spawning after touch, restart spawning after contact with another actor, HOW?

Cabaco

Just like the title says, so I click my actor 1 that spawns another actor, after the first touch I want the first spawn actor to deactivate, which means I want it to stop spawing actors, not clickable, and once the other actor hits the ground I want the spawner to activate again and be able to spawn more actors again.
Any help?

MotherHoose

@CabacoAppNews … you tell the computer that the spawn is done

gameAttribute: spawnDone … boolean type

on actor1:
Rule: when (All)
Event: touch is pressed
Attribute: when spawnDone is false
-Spawn actor2
-changeAttribute: game.spawnDone To: true

on actor2
Rule: when
Event: overlaps or collides with actor type ground
-changeAttribute: game.spawnDone To: false

MH

Cabaco

Thanks! Actually I have another question. I have a game where there's a button that spawns actors, but I want there to be a limit of 5 to be spawnable, once that limit is reached, the button stops working, but can still be there. Then, your goal is to eliminate these balls, once there are less than 5 balls, make the spawn button work again. How can this be achieved?

MotherHoose

@CabacoAppNews

add gameAttribute … spawnCount … index type

on spawnerButton
Rule: when (All)
Event: touch is pressed
Attribute: game.spawnCount < 5
-Spawn
-changeAttribute: spawnCount To: spawnCount+1

on ballActor:
Rule: when
Event: touch is pressed (whatever triggers the destroy of ball)
-changeAttribute: game.spawnCount To: game.spawnCount-1
-Destroy

MH

Cabaco

There's a slight problem, all of this is working, but when I get to 5 balls onscreen, and one of them is destroyed, they just keep showing up so the amount of balls as to always be 5. And what I want is to when the balls are 5 and one is destroyed, I want there to be 4 so that I can spawn one more if I want. Thanks for the help

tatiang

@CabacoAppNews, are you saying that you want the 5th ball to be destroyed but not to cause another ball to spawn automatically?

MotherHoose

just change when spawnCount < 5 … do spawn
and do not change the spawnCount with the touch/destroy ball

track the number of balls destroyed with another attribute
have that attribute … restart the spawn (changeAttribute: spawnCount To: 0)

the idea is to do the as many spawns as you want on screen
destroy the balls (and track # of balls destroyed)
restart the spawns

you tell the computer when to do something
(attributes for conditions to trigger)
you tell the computer what to do
(attributes for tracking that is done)

MH

Cabaco

Ok I made it so that they stop spawning automatically, now I cant quite figure out how to make them spawnable againa up to 5. I made a destroycount attribute. Sorry for the inconvenience

MotherHoose

@CabacoAppNews … great! you are getting it!

maybe something like when the destroyCount = 4
changeAttribute: game.spawnCount To: 1
will restart the spawn?

MH

Cabaco

It still doesn't quite work like the way I want it to work. What about just one ball on screen at a time and when there are no balls on screen, I'm the one who spawns it? Man, this has turned out to be quite difficult

Cabaco

Sorry, gotta bump it