Game level IDs to Spawned Actors?

RocketBrain

Is it possible to assign game level IDs to spawned actors?

jonmulcahy

what do you mean

RocketBrain

Basically i'm trying to learn to make a TD game. All i can find template wise is a really old one where you have to create each actor while making the game.

what i'd like is when i drag in a new actor called "tower", each one has a new ID or name like Tower1, Tower2, Tower3, Tower4...etc.

or am i going at this all wrong?

ericzingeler

You can create a unique ID in a couple ways:

Option 1:

game.NewID (index attribute)

(In actor that will spawn tower)
On spawn:
Change game attribute game.NewID to game.NewID+1
Spawn Tower

(In spawned actor)

myID (index attribute)

Outside of rules at very top:
Change myID to game.NewID

Option 2:

(In spawned actor)

myID (real attribute)

Outside of rules at very top:
Change myID to game.Time

Option 2 doesn't require you to manage the ID's as its based on game time, but option 1 may be more useful as you're also creating a running count of towers.

RocketBrain

thanks, gonna play with that.