How to make actors spawn randomly

J_gorinac

Im making a game thats pretty much like wack a mole but with my friends head poping up instead lol but i have no clue on how to make his head pop up from the wholes randomly and to make it difficult

Pls help

thanks

quantumsheep

Let's say you have six holes.

Make an integer attribute - call it 'popup' or whatever you like.

Then have an actor in your scene as a controller.

Have a timer behaviour in this actor

Say 'every 3 seconds'

Behaviour: Change popup to random(1,6)

Then have six new rules.

If popup = 1

Make first mole pop-up

If popup = 2

Make second mole pop-up

etc etc

You can even use random in the timer, so for example:

Every Random(1,4) seconds

Change pop-up to Random(1,6)

The first number is the lowest, the second the highest and together they stipulate a range to draw a random number from.

Hope that helps!

QS

Good luck with your game. Hope you and your friend enjoy it.

J_gorinac

Thanks but will the fact that my holes are part of my background image effect this advice? or do I just put the pop-up as my friends face?

J_gorinac

and I have 12 holes so i would have 12 actors that are my friends head right? and also how do you make them "invisible" when there not being spawned?

J_gorinac

I already started with his and now im stuck... I don't know how to make them not visible before they are spawned

scitunes

notice that T's method does not use spawning. just image changing. I would go with that

J_gorinac

Could i just make a "base" actor with 0 opacity and do the change image thing? instead of having to import an image for each one

J_gorinac

Yeah I ended up doin what you said lol way easier ha