Keeping spawned actors when changing scene

Appulocity

I am currently working on a game that requires the player to move from the main scene where the main actors are spawned, to a second scene to carry out other actions, before moving back to the main scene again. However the actors that had been spawned in the main scene disappear, how can I make them stay?

Thanks in advance

http_gamesalad

put the thing that made them spawn on the first scene on the second one... you should make a controller so you can manage everything easier!

Appulocity

@http_gamesalad said:
put the thing that made them spawn on the first scene on the second one... you should make a controller so you can manage everything easier!

I would, except I dont want those actors on the second scene, just the first scene

sswisehaupt

So I am not sure what the solution is?

tatiang

See my demo here: http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/506569/#Comment_506569.

The trick, though, with spawned actors would be to have a boolean or table value that changes when an actor is spawned and then have a rule in the spawner actor to spawn if those values have been changed.

sswisehaupt

I tried that. It remembers the position, but when I come back to the scene, the already spawned actor is gone. When the user spawns a new actor it is spawned to the saved attribute of the last one spawned.

sswisehaupt

The actor only spawns when the user touches it.

sswisehaupt

The demo saves the attribute, but I cannot get it to save the spawned actor. When the player taps on the actor to spawn it does spawn in the new saved attribute. I want it to spawn to the same place each time, and keep all the spawned.

tatiang

Right, as I mentioned, you'd need to add to the demo. It doesn't do everything you want. It's just an example of how to store data for an actor's position.

Spawning is a bit trickier as I alluded to. You'll need to figure out a system for keeping track of which actor was spawned and what its position was when the scene changed, and then for re-spawning and moving the actor to that same position.

Socks

@sswisehaupt said:
The demo saves the attribute, but I cannot get it to save the spawned actor.

Use the attributes to re-spawn the actors in the correct location.