Check for dead?

HappyKat78

Hi guys,

I believe when an actor leaves the screen (or is it the scene?) by a certain amount of pixels, he will automatically be destroyed. Currently when I destroy actors I add to a count attribute I.e "deathcount". As I'm not destroying actors that leave the screen/scene myself, how can I check if game salad has destroyed an actor and add it to my deathcount? I know I could kill the actor before game salad does, say the second it leaves the scene/screen, but I actually want the actor to be able to leave the screen/scene a little.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

HK

Hopscotch

The actor gets destroyed if it is farther than 500px from the edge of the total scene size, not just the visible part.

Therefore, you can make your scene bigger, that is, give it a border outside the visible portion of the scene.

In this border you can then control the destoying of actors either by rules checking the distance it is out of the visible part of the scene, or by placing actors in this border area which will trigger the destroy of the actor if it collides/overlaps with these.

mathusalemrex

I do a timer in all my actors that kills em after around 20 seconds, its the only way to be sure...


Check for Dead sounds like a the name of a cool game to me...

Hopscotch

@mathusalemrex not as a game, but as an Accounting app for Hitmen

HappyKat78

haha! Ok, thanks guys. Wish there was a "If actor is destroyed..." function, would make life easier. :-)

saif_shammari

make new actor and name it destroy
and put it down in the edge of the scene
make rule in the main actor
when overlaps or collide with actor destroy
destroy this actor
i hope it help