What would be the best way of achieving this effect?

FallingBoxStudios

Hi, I have been stuck on this one thing in my game for almost 2 weeks

What I'm trying to achieve is a scrolling pattern constituting of 5 actors repeating themselves that scroll endlessly until you start the game.

My problem is I can't find a way of making the actors scroll all over the screen (like below, created with Photoshop)

Right now all I can do is this

So what would be the best way of achieving this effect?

Ps: Yes I have considered using a full image of the pattern repeating itself, but it wont achieve what I need.

Hopscotch

@FallingBoxStudios‌ , make the actor bigger vertically and in the graphics options in the actor set Vertical Wrap to "Tile"?

FallingBoxStudios

@Hopstoch I just tried that, but since the collision box of my actors are small it just did this

Hopscotch

@FallingBoxStudios‌ , is the above just for display? Then make an image specific for that.

FallingBoxStudios

Well I have interpolated the actors once the game begins (so once the game begins the shrink away) so I'm not sure if it will work with a larger collision box.

Hopscotch

@FallingBoxStudios‌, I don't understand where the collision box comes in if it is just for display. Maybe describe it a bit more.

BBEnk

duplicate the actor.

jamie_c

If it's just for display add a Replicate Behavior to each colored ball with as many steps/copies as it takes to fill the screen.

FallingBoxStudios

Thanks everyone for all the help, I managed to do it
But I have bumped into a weird glitch with the actor movement, each actor weirdly shakes a lot causing the pattern to go uneven

Here's the code, what do you think could be causing this?

I also have a destroy behaviour after 7 seconds

jamie_c

Here is a sample I did using Replicate if it helps at all.

FallingBoxStudios

Thank you so much @jamie_c‌, that worked so much better!

jamie_c

Cool, glad it worked for you!