saving spawned actors best practices

peaston

Hi All,
I was wonder if their was a "best practice" method of saving spawned characters so I can leave and come back to a scene and have spawned actors still be there.
Any pointer/examples would be greatly appreciated.

Pete

tatiang

Best practice would be not to spawn them but rather to hide and then reveal them (e.g. with self.color.Alpha=0 or 1). That way you don't have to spawn and destroy them. You can control their visibility with a game attribute that doesn't get reset scene-to-scene. Or is there a reason you need to spawn them (e.g. they are bullets, enemies, etc.)?

peaston

It's a sticker book so they need to be able to have as many copies as they want.

master200012

Is using "Replicate" an option?

tatiang

It's a sticker book so they need to be able to have as many copies as they want.

Here's a somewhat complex but effective way to do it:
In your sticker actor, have a behavior that saves its x & y position and sticker "type" to a table.
Have a "respawn" actor that loops through the table rows and spawns each sticker type at its x & y position

peaston

yeah that's what i was thinking, adding a touch release to save the image name,x & y then reload them when the user returns.

tatiang

@peaston I made you a demo. Click on a sticker to select it. Click again, drag and release to place it. When you switch scenes and return, the stickers are in their same locations and you can then add more.

peaston

thanks, i've already corrected the double click now i'll try integrating what you've created. thanks again