change position on timer

allc1865

I was trying to make my actor go to one position, and then back to the original position randomly on a timer.

I've tried to create it, and it goes up but never comes back down.
You can see what I've done below in the link the my file.

Thanks guys if anyone can help

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ovj0pt6xnsxfsv/changePositions.zip?dl=0

tatiang

This is sort of a strange setup:

You're asking your actor to "do something after five seconds every four seconds." Theoretically, it should still run since you have Run to Completion checked but... it's not working so time to come up with a better method.

What should happen is that at the 4 second mark, the actor should move up and also at the 8 second mark (and every four seconds thereafter. At the 9 second mark (4+5), it should move down (and every 4 seconds thereafter). So if we write out this pattern, we get:

[0 down]
4 up
9 down
12 up
13 down
16 up
17 down...

So basically, you're trying to make an actor move up after 4 seconds and down after 1 second... is that correct? If so, change the After 5 seconds timer to After 1 second.

Deviros

@tatiang @allc1865

I think it could be even more efficient to use a rule to swap it out, i.e.

If (self.on == false) {
::after 5 seconds, make self.on = true::
}
else {
::after 1 second, make self.on = false::
}

You should end up with a pretty efficient flippy flop.

allc1865

@tatiang said:

So basically, you're trying to make an actor move up after 4 seconds and down after 1 second... is that correct? If so, change the After 5 seconds timer to After 1 second.

why are you so smart

thank you

allc1865

@Deviros , thank you!

tatiang

@allc1865 said:
why are you so smart

thank you

It's my teachers' fault. You're welcome!