Timer within a timer?

j_d_campbell98

Hi noob here. I'm trying to make a timer within a timer so that basically after 10 seconds an enemy is spawned every 4 to 8 seconds but instead the enemy only spawns every 10 seconds.
StartTime and Mod1 are both real attributes I made, StartTime is at 0 and Mod1 is at 0.05.
My code goes a bit like this:

If self.time > game.StartTime + 10
then
If game.mod1 > self.time % random(4, 8)
then
Spawn Enemy.

I'm using Attribute timers rather than actual timers, obvs.
Please Help!

Daftbomb

What about using an actor to spawn the spanner after 10 seconds?

You could have a dummy actor that looks like it and after self.time>10 destroy and spawn a different actor that spawns random(4,8)

Hopscotch

@j_d_campbell98‌

change attribute self.SpawnTime=game.Time+10

Rule: if self.SpawnTime<game.Time then

         spawn Enemy
         change attribute self.SpawnTime=game.Time+random(4,8)

end if

j_d_campbell98

Ahhh I was way over thinking that thanks!

j_d_campbell98

Another problem I have is that although they're only meant to spawn every 4 to 8 seconds they sometimes spawn a lot quicker and sometimes two actors are spawned at the exact same time and I'm really confused

j_d_campbell98

I'm pretty sure it's got something to do with the random(min, max) part as it works fine if I were just to put in a single number.

Hopscotch

@j_d_campbell98‌ can you post a screenshot of the spawning code? You are sure that you only have one of the spawning actors on the scene? Is it wrapped in a timer maybe?

KillerPenguinStudios

Hey @j_d_campbell98‌,

I would do this one on two ways.

~First Way~

When game.start is true

After 10 seconds

Every random (4,8) seconds

Spawn enemy

~Second Way~

Create a game boolean attribute called spawn_enemy

When game.start is true

After 10 seconds

Change attribute game.spawn_enemy to true

When game.spawn_enemy is true

Every random (4,8) seconds

Spawn enemy

When game.over is true

Change attribute game.spawn_enemy to false

Those are the two ways I would approach this! Hope it helps!

j_d_campbell98

Also don't hate me but I'm using a PC. I just used this thread cause it has like 40k questions and seemed more likely for an answer

Socks

@KillerPenguinStudios said:
Hey j_d_campbell98‌,

I would do this one on two ways.

~First Way~

When game.start is true

After 10 seconds

Every random (4,8) seconds

Spawn enemy

~Second Way~

Create a game boolean attribute called spawn_enemy

When game.start is true

After 10 seconds

Change attribute game.spawn_enemy to true

When game.spawn_enemy is true

Every random (4,8) seconds

Spawn enemy

When game.over is true

Change attribute game.spawn_enemy to false

Those are the two ways I would approach this! Hope it helps!

You cannot have random value in a timer, well you can, but it will only use the first value it generates . . . which makes sense, because 'every' means 'each one' / 'all of them' - so it doesn't really make sense to say 'all of . . . ' and then only use a value once (which is the case with a changing random value).

A: When are you open.

B: We are open every Saturday.

A: Ok, cool, I can't make this Saturday, but I can visit next Saturday.

B: We're not open next Saturday, the days we are open change randomly.

A: But you said 'every' Saturday ?

B: Yeah like I say, the days we are open change randomly, it might be every Saturday, then every Tuesday, then every Monday . . .

A: WTF ?

Socks

This is how I would do it.

A game attribute called X.

. . . . . . . .

Rule for the Spawner actor:

Timer

--After X seconds

---Change X to random(4,8)

---Spawn Enemy

---Destroy this actor

---Spawn Spawner

Socks

Example (attached)

Lovejoy

@Socks‌ Method works pretty good.

But here is my way of doing it without using timers or spawning and destroying actors. I configured it to do exactly what you needed.

Let me know what you think.

Demo attached.

Here is a screenshot of the rules:

j_d_campbell98

Thanks guys, this all really helps