Is there a way I can reset my spawner timers every 3 seconds so that they don't have lag over time?

Skyler128

Is there a way I can reset my spawner timers every 3 seconds so that they don't have lag over time?
It starts to lag after 15 seconds. Here is what I have.

Timer every 1.1 seconds
spawn actor ball1

Timer every 1.8 seconds
spawn actor ball2

timer every 0.7 seconds
spawn actor ball3

tatiang

Can you describe what you mean by "lag"?

Are they not spawning when expected? Try adding a Log Debugging Statement to each actor with "prec(game.Time,1)" in the expression editor. That will output the time the actor is spawned in tenths of a second. You'll need to open the Debugger window to see the output.

Do your ball actors have processor intensive rules (e.g. lots of constrains, spawns, particles, etc.)?

Skyler128

They spawn when expected.
Its the frame rate that goes down, making it less and less responsive.
My actors have direction 0.0 horizontal position random(70,350)
and vertical position 30

Here is what the debugger said each time a ball is spawned
Log(Actor: spawnpoint): prec(game.Time,1)

tatiang

I guess I don't understand what you mean by "spawner timers" then. Are you creating custom timers? Or do you mean that after you spawn a certain number of ball actors, everything slows down in the game?

According to your spawn rules above, you would have a maximum of about 44 actors after 15 seconds. That shouldn't be enough to make the game lag, but again it depends on each actors' rules. You don't say if the actors are moving but if they are, you might want to destroy them after they leave the screen boundary.

I'm not sure the debugger is going to be helpful since I misunderstood you but to get it to work properly, you have to click on the 'e' button to edit the expression and then select game.Time from the drop-down menu instead of typing it in.

Skyler128

In my Ball actors I have
Accelerate Direction 270
Acceleration 90

Rule
Actor receives event overlaps or collides with actor of type bird
spawn actor squish
destroy this actor
change attribute game.score to game.score+4

Rule
Actor receives event overlaps or collides with actor of type floor
destroy
destroy this actor
change attribute
change attribute game.HP game.HP-1

Skyler128

my actors move
after they spawn a certain number of ball actors, everything slows down in the game.

tatiang

Here's a demo I made that doesn't seem to suffer from lag. I didn't destroy the balls at all.

Skyler128

I test it on my Iphone 4s

Skyler128

The lag happens on my iphone 4s

tatiang

The lag happens on my iphone 4s

Good to know. Does lag occur with my demo file or just with the project file you're working on? I don't notice any lag on my iPhone 5 with my demo file.

Skyler128

Thank you I will test your template on my iphone.

Skyler128

Just the project file that I am working on.