Will the game start to lag if the actors spawned don't get destroyed after off-screen?

winged_box

The game will keep spawning new enemy, if I don't destroyed the spawned actor after it got off-screen will it lag the game after a long time?

CodeMonster

Yes It most defently will happen.

winged_box

@CodeMonster said:
Yes It most defently will happen.

My problem now is every time the actor got destroyed after off-screen my spawner won't spawn any more new enemies, this happened when i use timer with the After setting.

If I select 'Every' the game will continue to spawn it even after it got destroyed but even though I set the time to random(1,5) it will always spawn at the same interval not random.

Any advise for this?

Socks

@winged_box said:
The game will keep spawning new enemy, if I don't destroyed the spawned actor after it got off-screen will it lag the game after a long time?

That depends on the particular circumstances, actors are automatically killed once they stray more than 500 pixels away from the edge of the scene ('scene' not screen).

Socks

@winged_box said:
My problem now is every time the actor got destroyed after off-screen my spawner won't spawn any more new enemies.

It sounds like you have your code set up incorrectly. We'd need to see that code to be able to diagnose the issue.

Hopscotch

@winged_box said:
If I select 'Every' the game will continue to spawn it even after it got destroyed but even though I set the time to random(1,5) it will always spawn at the same interval not random.

If you set an "every" timer to random(1,5) then it will get the random number only once at the start and then stick to that timing.

In your case what you could do is the following

change attribute self.lasttime = game.time
change attribute self.delay = random(1,5)

timer every 1 seconds run to completion

         rule if self.delay < game.time-self.lasttime

                  spawn something
                  change attribute self.delay = random(1,5)
                  change attribute self.lasttime = game.time

         end of rule

end of timer

winged_box

"change attribute self.lasttime = game.time

< game.time-self.lasttime"

Wouldn't this make it equal to '0'?

"self.delay < game.time-self.lasttime

spawn something
change attribute self.delay = random(1,5)"

My self.delay will be (1,5) meaning it will never be <game.time-self.lastime.

How will this work?

winged_box

Tried that method but it won't spawn any enemy.