spawner question

goliath

Hopefully an easy question for someone to quickly answer...

I have a spawner actor that I want to spawn random actors from all sides of the working area. for some reason, the actors are currently only spawning from the center out and mostly to the left.

I hope I am being clear on my description and if you need more info, please let me know. The premise is to dodge little actors that are floating towards you and to stay alive for as long as possible. Thanks for any help.

Currently my spawner actor is spawning actor 1 every 1 second direction is set to 0 position 0

actor 1 is "move" direction (random 160, 209) speed is random as well.

hopefully something easy and i thank you for the help.

gyroscope

Hi goliath, would it be, in the Spawn Actor attribute, set the x, y position of the spawned actor, but then set Relative to scene? The x and y position there in the Spawned Actor attribute could also be determined by a random x and y of, let's say, of similar areas to the left and right of the screen, within min and max limits, if wanted. Then add another random of 1 or 2, being which side the particular spawned actor goes to. Think that would work... (hope I've explained it properly).

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goliath

I'll try that thanks! Im sure theres an easy way I just figured I'd ask...

goliath

no one else?

Rob2

I have found that random is very fussy about where it is called from otherwise it can get set in its ways and patterns will quickly appear( not random)!!

Try a 'change attribute' to assign your random number to an attribute from within a timer and then use the attribute.

goliath

anybody else have any work-arounds?