How do you spawn an actor and position it relative to the actor?

natclarke

I have an actor that I would like to put a (spawned actor to create smoke) at the back of the hover bike (see image) . I am not sure what position for x any y axis to use so that it comes out at the back of the hover bike. Is there a method to do this simply?

Toque

Spawn x axis. Depending on size of it??
Experiment. 50 or 100.

You might have to play with y as well.

Trial and error. I spawn behind actor.

tatiang

The most important thing is to set the X and Y positions to "relative to actor." Then, keeping in mind that the actor's X position is at its center, you can find the right edge of an actor by using self.Position.X-self.Size.Width/2. In the case of "relative to actor," you would just enter the expression -self.Size.Width/2. As was mentioned above, you may have to do some trial and error to get the positioning just right (e.g. -self.Size.Width/2+18 or -self.Size.Width/2-5).