Tables, and spawning - need help

IsabelleK

Hi!
I have 6 different actors - I want them to spawn inside a level, based on the numbers inside a table.
I have a table called "Elements", it contains 10 columns - one for each level, and 6 rows - one for each actor.
All of values are Integers, and numbers inside each cell are numbers - how many actors of this type I want inside each level.

So it looks like this:

Level1
Actor1 0
Actor2 2
Actor3 1
Actor4 0
Actor5 5
Actor6 1

So inside the first level I want 0 Actor1, 2 Actors2, etc. Now how to make a rule which would spawn the right number of each actor inside scene?

Just to be clear - I make all levels inside one scene, so this is why I use tables.

Thank you!

NovicaStudio

This would be so much easier if they had in spawn actor the amount you wanted to spawn.

simo103

@IsabelleK .. I would use 2 timers with the spawn in them. So for example I would run the timer for 1 sec and the second timer every 0.2 sec I would have the spawn which would give me 5 actors. Run it for 0.8 secs every 0.2 secs to get 4 actors etc. Does that help?

IsabelleK

@simo103 thank you for your answer, but I'm looking for some more automatic rule - which would spawn the right number of actors, even if I change the value inside the table.
It doesn't have to be Spawn behavior, it can be any way, to make actors appear, based on the numbers in tables.

IsabelleK

I managed to do it

If anyone needs something like this, here it is:
I have a new actor - I called it Spawner. It has 6 integer attributes inside him (each for each row in a table). At the beginning of the scene it changes each of these attributes to the appropriate value from a table.
Then there's a rule (for each attribute):
If self.1 is bigger than 0
Timer, every 1 sec
Spawn actor 1
Change attribute self.1 to self.1-1

J_PAN

ok awesome