Can anyone offer advice about four actors of the same animation?

IntelligentDesigner

I have four in a scene, and I want to fade one out using alpha - How do I differentiate them? They are all "clones" of the same actor.

Anyone got an idea on this?

TIA

carlos.varela.com

What is the event that will start "fading" that actor, a time, a touch, a collide?

IntelligentDesigner

A time, based on a game attribute in a prior scene. I want to be able to fade any of the four, based upon an earlier selection.

Seems like they'd have an instance index or somesuch...

Chaser

Personally I would have them look the same but give them different actor names then depending on your condition ex. Touch actor 2 in scene 1 Change game attribute to 1 so in scene 2 when game attribute is 1 for whatever second actor do fade. For the other actors if game attribut is 3 or 4 fade different actors Or you you could make several game attributes that each actor would rely on for either being 0 or 1

carlos.varela.com

I am not sure, but maybe if you have a game.attribute.count for example, on your spawner for every object that you instance you can increment first the game.count and inside the actor you can set a self.whoIAmNumber attribute with game.count+1, but the problem is how you can access that new number again in order to fade it.

CodeMonkey

I create an actor attribute called, self.whoami
And for each instance I just change only the attribute to a different number. (no need to unlock the actor)
They all would have the rule,
RULE: If any: Attribute self.whoami = game.WhichOneISelectedToFadeOut (feel free to shorten that name)
Interpolate self.Color.alpha , 0

IntelligentDesigner

Thanks Guys, I will try these.