Spawn a formation?

Dooki

Hey all,
- I figured out how to click on an actor that will trigger the spawn of another actor, and then be able to move it.
- How can I spawn a formation of say 5 actors? I'd like to be able to have a couple of preset formation buttons that call up formations of actors. Then I can move then around.

Thanks!

quantumsheep

Just add more spawn behaviours.

If button is pressed
Spawn actor 1 at x,y (you've already done this bit)

then add:
Spawn actor 2 at x,y
Spawn actor 3 at x,y
Spawn actor 4 at x,y
Spawn actor 5 at x,y

Simplest way.

Hope that helps,

QS

Dooki

Interesting. I tried this but nothing seemed to happen.

- Made a rule "is touch is pressed."
---Spawn actor.
---Spawn actor (offset the X,Y)

When I previewed I only got the first actor. I will try this again.

quantumsheep

That's odd.

I use the method I described to spawn multiple enemies, or multiple bullets from enemies. Don't get why it wouldn't work for you... though I do use a timer to spawn them instead of a button.

Perhaps you need to have a boolean variable that changes when you press the button. Let's call it 'SpawnOn'.

Now
When button is pressed.
For 1 second: Change SpawnOn to true.

Otherwise change SpawnOn to false.

Then have a spawner actor that says:

IF SpawnOn is true

Spawn all your actors.

Try that maybe?

Cheers,

QS

Dooki

Nope. Got in to the office and tried it again. It works! Thanks.
One question though. Is there an easy way to specify spawn location? Or is my only option to play with x,y values? For example I want these actors to spawn in a "V" formation.

Thanks.
-Dooki

quantumsheep

I'm guessing that's where arrays would come in...

I think x,y values are the best way for now. Ready to be proved wrong though!