Sprites dying too offscreen

smurfted

So GS kills the sprites when they go to far off screen. I need to stop this...

Any ideas?

tatiang

You cannot avoid the void.

That being said, is there a way you can stop actors when they reach a certain point outside the scene boundaries and then move them to the other side of the scene? Or destroy and respawn them?

Hopscotch

@smurfted

actors automatically get destroyed if their center points are 500 pixels outside the scene.

If @tatiang 's suggestion does not help you, maybe because you are moving very large actors, then you will need to increase the size of your scene, and move the camera to the middle.

smurfted

Thanks for the advice lads..

just started making the screen bigger (with the camera in the middle) but now my joystick control code doesn't work anymore

Two.E

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Socks

@Hopscotch said:
maybe because you are moving very large actors . . .

The size of an actor has no effect on its position, a 4x4px actor moving left at 500pps will be killed at exactly the same time as a 1000x1000px actor moving at the same speed (and starting at the same start position).

Hopscotch

No kidding @Socks?

The implication here is that a 1024 wide moving background image will be destroyed before its right hand edge has exited the left hand side of the scene.

Socks

@Hopscotch said:
No kidding @Socks?

The implication here is that a 1024 wide moving background image will be destroyed before its right hand edge has exited the left hand side of the scene.

Ah! I see what you mean now, yes that makes sense, I thought you were referring to 'sprites' ("GS kills the sprites when they go to far off screen").