Spawner Not Spawning Quickly Enough?

FallingBoxStudios

Hi, I'm trying to spawn the same ball actor over & over again to fall from the top of the screen to the bottom, but the only problem is that: one ball falls from the top of the screen, then by the time the ball goes out of the screen another one spawns again, so the balls fall down way to slowly.

The code in the ball actor:
Accelerate; Speed (random 100 - 300)
Direction; 270.

The code in the spawner actor:
Timer; - Every; (random 1 - 3) seconds
Spawn; Ball actor.

Is there anyway to speed it up? without it looking too crazy, basically I just want more then 1 ball to fall at a time. Thanks

- Hunter

KevinCross

Random on timers won't give you a random time every loop. If it picks 2 randomly then it will always spawn every 2 seconds, until you change scene/destroy the spawner actor.

FallingBoxStudios

@sadida172 That did not work it just made the balls fall down then go really slow at the end

CodeMonster

if you want the balls to go directly down and stay same speed make it so instead of using an accelerate behavior or a velocity behavior use this;

change attribute;
self.motion.linearvelocity.y to (the speed you want) an example make it 300 maybe?

this will make the balls fall and stay the same speed while falling, you can adjust the speed to separate balls or randomize the speed or whatever you want, but i always use this method for platformers or any games.

CodeMonster

oh ok thought you meant the behavior

FallingBoxStudios

@CodeMonster @sadida172 Thanks, but this is not what I'm asking for never mind I think I found a way. Thanks

FallingBoxStudios

@KevinCross Oh okay then :-O Thanks