How to spawn from the top of screen downwards?
michaeln93
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So I have a coin that I want to spawn from the top of the screen but it keeps spawning left to right?
I have a move behavior with direction 270 on the coin and a spawner with a timer that spawns the acorn direction 90.
So it should have spawn on top of the screen and move down right?
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270 + 90 = 360.
360° = facing right.
I guess in your coin actor the 'Relative to:" part of the accelerate behaviour is set to 'actor' . . .
Therefore it should move left to right.
270 is down - 360 is right - 180 is left - 90 is up . . . so if you want your actor to go down then dump the extra 90° offset in the spawn behaviour (or if you need it for some reason, then make the coin's direction =180°) . . . or simply change the 'Relative to:" part of the coin's accelerate behaviour to 'Scene'.
It seems like the obvious thing when faced with a problem like this would be to experiment, change the 90 to 0 or -90 (or anything) . . . or change the 270 to something else - experiment and see what happens - get a feel for what the numbers are actually doing - it's a good way to learn - if you were to play around with the values like this I'd be surprised if it took you more than a minute to solve the problem.
P.S. Why did you put 90 into the spawner direction field, what were you trying to get it to do ?
Oh thanks man. Sry I didn't think they would add up. It works now.
Btw, how do I make it spawn in order so it becomes sort of like an escalator instead of it randomly spawning at different x-axis location?
Move the spawner left to right, spawn a coin every X seconds. That will give you a kind of ramp / escalator of coins.