Spawning actors from outside the screen

peterraad

Hello once again . The same game that I'm making which involves a spaceship moving around the screen shooting enemies that spawn randomly from outside the screen coming in towards the ship. My issue is that Im trying to see how I should do this but Im not sure where to start. Should I make a new actor that spawns the enemies?

Yotixz02

hey i want to make games, but when I try to drag the player so nothing happens and the screen when I play is black

tatiang

@Yotixa02 If you have a separate question, please start a new thread and someone will help you out. Otherwise you are "hijacking" this one.

@peterraad Yes, make an actor that spawns the enemies. In the spawn behavior, set the x and y positions (relative to scene) beyond the edge of the scene. If you have scene wrapping on, it's easier but without it you can either have separate spawner actors for each edge of the scene or you can work out a rule that changes an attribute to a random number such as random(1,4) and then spawns in a certain area based on the result.

tatiang

Here's how I'd do it.