Need help with tables and some actions!

luckyleaf

Hi. everyone

Im making a game a bit like subway surf.. but here things come from the right and moves to the left..
i have build 5 actors "5 Lanes" that my player can move in..

made 5 game attributes with the names lane1,lane2, lane3, lane4,lane5

my idea is that the table will have 5 rows, one for each lane
and a collum is "one" spawn sek..

so in the table the will be numbers, each number stands for either a positive spawn, negative spawn, or a "empty" spawn.

this is my table ex:
("-" is a new collum) Collum
lane1 1 - 2 - 1 - 3 - 1
lane2 5 - 5 - 5 - 4 - 1
lane3 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 2
lane4 2 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 2
lane5 4 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 4
lets say the #1 is a cannonball, or #number 2 is a powerpickup, or that #5 is nothing.

now what i wont is to tell directly to the lane actor or the game attribute for the lane, to spawns what is equal to that collum # that sek.. and then the sek after spawn the thing in the next collum...

the Actor spawner will have the, spawn set to.. if game attribute "lane1" number is equal to 1 spawn this item..

hope you guys can understand what im trying to write here :S

tatiang

By "sek" do you mean "second?"

Each lane spawner actor can have a timer that runs every second and increases its self.column (integer) value and then spawns an actor based on tableCellValue(tableName,self.myRow,self.column).

tatiang

In each spawner actor, create the following attributes:
self.column (integer) set to 0
self.spawnChoice (integer) set to 0
self.lane (integer) set to the lane number where that actor is (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc.)

In each spawner actor, create the following timer:
Timer every 1 second
     change attribute self.column (integer) to self.column+1
     change attribute self.spawnChoice (integer) to tableCellValue(tableName,self.lane,self.column)
     When attribute self.spawnChoice=1
          Spawn actor [cannonball]
     When attribute self.spawnChoice=2
          Spawn actor [powerpickup]
     etc.

luckyleaf

By "sek" do you mean "second?"

Each lane spawner actor can have a timer that runs every second and increases its self.column (integer) value and then spawns an actor based on tableCellValue(tableName,self.myRow,self.column).

That sounds good! but can u give an ex:

i'm a new user so, a little push in the right direction would be nice
if you have the time..

tried with what you gave me in your post, but can figure it out..

thanks for your help so far!

tatiang

Argh! The forums bug deleted my comment... brb with a demo.

tatiang

@luckyleaf Here you go. Each lane spawner instance needs to have its self.lane attribute set manually. Let me know if you have questions.

luckyleaf

thanks mate

luckyleaf

Works perfect the way you did it, with the lanes!! thank you so much..

But what if i what to loop the table.. so when it hits the last collumn, it restarts again at the first column?

tatiang

Instead of change attribute self.column to self.column+1, use this:

change attribute self.column to mod(self.column,tableColCount(tableName))+1

luckyleaf

Instead of change attribute self.column to self.column+1, use this:

change attribute self.column to mod(self.column,tableColCount(tableName))+1

couldn't get it to work.. nothing spawns :S

tatiang

Sorry, take it out of the rule that says When self.column < tableColCount. That isn't needed if you're looping through the columns.