Timer problem, first time it counts to 10, 2nd time only to 9, why?

QuestionMan

I have a spawner that has the following code:

If 'spawn' = false...
For 10 seconds...
Every 1 second, spawn Monster

after the first loop through (10 spawned and 10 monsters killed), it resets Spawn to false, only this time it only produces 9 monsters, why would it do that?

I played with the 'run to completion' but it didn't change anything

tatiang

If you do the following:

Timer For 10 seconds --> Timer Every 1 second --> Log Debugging Statement "spawn"

and then look at the Debugger window, you'll see that only 9 statements are logged.

For reasons I don't understand, you'll need to add a bit of buffer to the For timer behavior. Usually, it works fine if I do Timer For 10.1 seconds --> Timer Every 1 second --> Spawn

QuestionMan

Hey that worked like a charm too. I had initially put an extra 1 second timer in as a work around, but your way is more efficient. Thanks!

arcticsunrise

If you always want something to spawn every 10 seconds then use cos / sin function instead and with some maths and a trigger boolean - you can make it do it - its more efficient than a constant timer going on in the background - especially if you want loads of timers or loads of spawnnig things

QuestionMan

do you know of a video that explains that more thoroughly?

tatiang

It's quite a read, but worth it: http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/44707/timers-are-for-chumps-gs-optimization-tips

QuestionMan

Thanks I'll check it out if my game ends up being slow