Spread actors evenly across the screen on any screensize?

Daniel543M

Hey guys,
In my game there is a scene where there are 9 actors that go from one end (left) to the other (right).

The project is set up for iPad Landscape and these actors are on Y:384.

I'm trying to figure out a way to have it so that no matter what device the game is played on, these 9 actors will distribute along the X axis evenly across the whole screen width.

The first actor from the left is located at X:60 Y:384

I've added a 'change attribute' rule to each actor that changes their X position to the result of a formula. But I don't quite know what the formula should be so that it works on every device.

The formula I have now works when it's iPad but not other sizes.

Hopefully I've made some sense

Thank you!
Daniel

jamie_c

I'm pretty sure I saw @Braydon_SFX from gshelper post something like that a while ago. Hopefully he'll see this and respond.

Braydon_SFX

@jamie_c said:
I'm pretty sure I saw Braydon_SFX from gshelper post something like that a while ago. Hopefully he'll see this and respond.

Thanks for the mention, Jamie.

Yes. Here is a video tutorial:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=-ZHkVI2BGcGiNr6mhNgI&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hMPxt32mcuE&ved=0CBwQtwIwAA&usg=AFQjCNGH0jMpufTxU8KRdeKFD9T3oFr-nQ&sig2=dtKHdckaT8yeymw3-RSPlg

Daniel543M

Thanks for the replies the both of you.

Since posting this, I've come up with my own formula (which I think is much simpler than the one in the video and it suits my purpose better). The only issue I was having was that the formula wasn't actually doing anything.

Upon watching your video tutorial I figured out that it was because I wasn't spawning in the actor. I just had a change attribute on each one already on the scene and it wasn't working.

Now everything is working as far as I can see.

Thanks again
Daniel

Braydon_SFX

Glad you got it working.