How do I make my actor spawn when touched once, and stop spawning when touched twice.

sswisehaupt

I would like my actor to spawn when touched and stop spawning when touched twice.

http_gamesalad

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ucm8q7xxiwhui7f/Spawner template .zip?dl=0

Sorry I just saw your comment about destroying when its off. Hope its what you want good luck! Tell me if it works

http_gamesalad

The spawner template I sent isn't working when you downloaded it? Or.. you tried to incorporate the coding from the spawner template I made for you in your game and its not working?

http_gamesalad

Okay no problem , don't sweat it! Can't wait till you release your app! I'll be your first download for sure . Good luck !

tatiang

Can you explain this a bit more? Do you want the actor to spawn other actors? Do you want this to happen inside a timer (e.g. every second) until the second touch? And do you mean a double-click/tap?

sswisehaupt

I mean I want the actor to spawn other actors when I tap on it. Then when I tap twice on the spawning actor I want the spawn to stop. The actor is spawning a menu type to show the user what items he has collected.

sswisehaupt

Can this be done???

http_gamesalad

Okay make an integer game attribute call it tap

then do

when touch is pressed
do (change attribute behavior ) game.tap to (game.tap+1)%2 (if someone taps it again after the second time it'll start spawning again) If you just want it to happen only once do game.tap to game.tap+1

Then where your spawner is make attribute on top and say
game.tap < 2
do spawn

http_gamesalad

set the game.tap to 1 so as soon as you press it it stops the spawn

http_gamesalad

You know ill just make a template as soon as I'm out of school cause I don't think I explained that well! Give me a few hours or less

sswisehaupt

Thanks. Will it take away the already spawned actors? That would be great if it could.

http_gamesalad

do you want it to spawn continuously when its touched once or?

http_gamesalad

so i know how to set it up

sswisehaupt

I would like to to spawn when touched, and take away spawn (what has already been spawned) when touched again. Then when touched again, spawn, and so on.

gyroscope

Hi @sswisehaupt‌ Try this then: make an integer called SpawnLiveorDie

In your actor to be spawned, the Prototype one in the Inspector, put in its Rules:

-- any position and movement behaviours for your spawned actor
When SpawnLiveOrDie is 2
Change Attribute SpawnLiveOrDie to 0
Destroy

Now in the actor that spawns:

Rule: When touch is pressed
Rule: -- nested in above-- When SpawnLiveOrDie is 0
Spawn 
Change Attribute SpawnLiveOrDie to 1
Otherwise
Change Attribute SpawnLiveOrDie to 2

sswisehaupt

l will try that. Thanks a lot. I had been stumped. Let you know if it works, but might not be until tomorrow.

http_gamesalad

There you go!

sswisehaupt

Thanks for all your replies. I have set your dropbox spawner template up like shown, but for some reason its not working. When I preview the template you sent, thats what I want, to stop spawning and destroy all spawned actors. Not sure what I am doing wrong. Gyroscope, it flashed my spawned actors and nothing else.

sswisehaupt

I got it to work. I'm so excited. Thank you very much. I went back and checked all my rules and one was off. I used the spawner template. Thank you so much.

gyroscope

@sswisehaupt said:
Thanks for all your replies. I have set your dropbox spawner template up like shown, but for some reason its not working. When I preview the template you sent, thats what I want, to stop spawning and destroy all spawned actors. Not sure what I am doing wrong. Gyroscope, it flashed my spawned actors and nothing else.

Glad you got it sorted by using the template from @http_gamesalad

If, in my version, the spawned actor flashed and disappeared, my guess is you didn't nest the rules, or you set SpawnLiveorDie to 1, not 0 to start. Either way, it doesn't matter now, you're sorted.