Spawing 2 actors at the same time

gastounet73

Hi.
I'm working on a game. I have a spaceship to control and avoid colision with the other actor.
I have a table with the rules to spawn an actor (1stSpawnY, 1stspawnX, 2ndspawnY, 2ndSpawnX,....)

Atribute iDistance traveled : iDistance (update every 0.05 sec)
Atribute NextSpawn =1

On the top of the screen i have an actor with the folowing rule:

"If (iDistance>tablecell(mytable,1,nextspawn))
-Spawn Actor Y=0 X=tablecell(mytable,1,nextspawn+1)
-Nextspawn=nextspawn+2"

This is all working good but if they are 2 spawn at the same time, just the first one is spawing and then no more spawn...
I think i should have a very small timing delay on the 2nd spawn but he normally should spawn.

I check and the "if" condition is true but nothing happens.

Whats do i have to do?

tatiang

Post a screenshot of your rules. I'm finding it really hard to decipher this:

"If (iDistance>tablecell(mytable,1,nextspawn))
-Spawn Actor Y=0 X=tablecell(mytable,1,nextspawn+1)
-Nextspawn=nextspawn+2"

Are you using Windows Creator? Mac Creator has "When" rules and you posted in the Mac subforum so I'm just curious.

To spawn multiple actors, use multiple spawn behaviors. But maybe there's more to your algorithm than that and I'll know once I see your screenshot(s).

gastounet73

I'm on Mac

This is working properly exept when 2 asteroide has to spawn at the same time

gastounet73

I just found a solution (screenshot bellow). I don't like it but it's working. I'll really appreciate if someone explain me why the first one didn't worked. It never do a if condition 2 times in a row.

tatiang

I'm still unclear about how your game is setup (which actor is spawning the Ast1 actor, for example) but I'll offer this in case it's helpful: a rule will only trigger if the "state" of the rule changes from false to true. As an example, if you have a rule that says When attribute game.score > 100 spawn an actor, it will trigger when the score goes from 0 to 150 but it will not trigger again when the score goes from 150 to 300 because the rule was already true at 150.