Endless Platform

decabol

Hello guys,
I am trying to create an endless platform game. I have created a platform with 2880x100 pixels and I want it to generate itself endlessly during gameplay but it appears only ones on the screen than it disappears.
What should I do to generate it endlessly?

Bluemoonstudios

you can wrap the x position under scenes

jamie_c

keep track of the platforms X location, and when it's right edge is at the right edge of the scene, spawn a new platform that starts at the 'old' platforms right edge (assuming your platform is moving right to left). That's how I've done it for the endless runner tutorial I'm working on.

kinzua

@ahmetyuce if you want to do an endless.. u would not want to build up on RAM usage. So avoid spawn.. and reuse your actors. For e.g... have two of them and make them keep coming in a loop.

jamie_c

Perhaps I'm mistaken but I could swear I read here several times that spawning was 'fixed' and it's not really an issue to use that anymore vs recycling actors? I've never had a problem with it yet...

SolarPepperStudios

@jamie_c I made an endless runner game and put it in the App Store. I used spawners like a crazy man and have no problems whatsoever. It runs nice and smooth on iPod 2 and above with no lag!

jamie_c

Thanks for the info @Utveckla_Games, nice to hear!

OskarDeveloper

Make it un-scrollable

selectsoft

keep track of the platforms X location, and when it's right edge is at the right edge of the scene, spawn a new platform that starts at the 'old' platforms right edge (assuming your platform is moving right to left). That's how I've done it for the endless runner tutorial I'm working on.

As long as you destroy actors that are no longer in use, spawning isn't all that much of a problem.