How to avoid actors spawning on top of other actors

jgomez65

I am developing a game where an actor is randomly spawned somewhere the screen every couple of seconds. The problem is that because the place where the actor spawns inside the screen is determined randomly, sometimes the new version of the actors appears on top of the old version of the actor that is still present in the screen (the old one hasn't been eliminated yet by the player)
Is there a way to avoid actors spawning on top of each other while still maintaining the random element of the game? (meaning the player doesn't know what part of the screen the actor is going to spawn)

Thanks

jamie_c

I think you could check for a collision when it spawns, and if it collides with another actor, destroy it and spawn it at a new location.

VW_Games

Thats what i did for on of my games

tatiang

I also used @jamie_c's solution. Is there a reason you don't like that idea? Have you tried it?