Delayed scene entering and dropping a load

Dooki

Hey all,

I need and actor to enter the field of combat, drop a mine, and leave of the field. His entering needs to have a delay and not at the beginning of the level.

- For moving back and forth I tried the "pace back and forth" tut in the support page. My actor just moves but does not return. My set up,as per the tut:
*change velocity
*Timer= 1.4 sec
**change attbt= self.motion.linear (X,-X)
**same for (Y,-Y)
Am I missing something?

- For delayed entry I tried adding in a Timer thinking it would set entering in time. No luck.
- Ideally when the actor reaches the end of the movement he drops (spawn) a mine. I don't know how to do this.

Can any of you gurus help me out?? Thanks!

Dooki

...Would it be smart to have the actor move to a location and have a hidden trigger actor that when collided would spawn the mine? I would like the actor to pause as he spawns the mine before he heads back off the screen, and I don't know how to do the pause.

Thanks!

quantumsheep

Interpolate!

And a variable called 'WaitForIt'

Have a control actor that says:
Timer: - After 3 seconds
Change Attribute WaitForIt to 'true'.

Place your actor just offscreen to the left.

Then on your main actor:

If 'WaitForIt' is true

Interpolate position X to 240
in 5 seconds

After 5 seconds drop mine

After 6 seconds interpolate self.position X to -30 (to take him offscreen)
in 5 seconds

That should do it.

Hope that helps,

QS

quantumsheep

Just read your second post - if you want him to pause, just change the 'after 6 seconds' in the last timer to however many seconds you want him to pause +5.

You can change all the timer stuff to suit your needs actually...

QS

scitunes

Did Dooki really just start a thread about dropping a load? Classic!

quantumsheep

I'm losing it! How did I miss that???

QS

Dooki

Yes, I am dropping a load! Glad you got a chuckle out of that. I was wondering how long it would take, if at all! ;-)
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Quantumsheep:
Thanks for your help. Let me see if I got this correct.

Controller actor=
Timer: 3 sec
-Change attribute: Waitforit To: True (Is Waitforit an "integer" attribute?)

Moving actor=
Rule
-Attribute: game.Waitforit = 1 (Not sure what you mean by "if Waitforit is true?")
--Interpolate: self.position.x To 240 @5sec Linear
Timer 6sec
--Interpolate: self.position.x To -30 @5sec Linear

OK, so with this set up effort as soon as I click my moving actor crosses the scene but does NOT stop/pause.

Thanks.

Dooki

Hey, I also tried this and it's pretty close to what I'm looking for. What do you think?

Controller Actor= same as before

Moving actor=
Rule
-Attribute= game.Waitforit= 1 (BTW if I enter "true" the scene does not work. "1" works.)
--Move To 50,420 to: scene/speed 100

Timer= After10 sec
-Spawn mine actor

Timer= After 11 sec
-Move To-50,-240/speed 100

OK, so the moving actor starts off scene on the right. It moves across the scene and pauses, drops mine actor, then moves off scene, BUT down and continues to the left. I was hoping a Move To of -50,-240 would make the actor go back the same way it came in.