Questions about a spawning a grid full of actors (Or not necessarily a grid...)
osakamitsu
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I have no idea where to start on this game idea I have.
The grid of squares would be spots I want an actor(s) to spawn. Would I need to start with the full grid of actors laid out like this? Or would it better to use tables to spawn them in certain places? How would I do this? How would I give GameSalad a list of coordinates to spawn them on? Would I need the X and Y positions on a table for each spot? Or spawn them inside or on top of an actor that is already in that position?
Basically I want a grid laid out. But nothing would move along the grid. The grid just represents places where actors become "active". Once active they have a certain amount of time to meet a condition. If met nothing would happen and the actor would either be destroyed or given a different image to display or a different kind of actor would be able to spawn on it's position. If not met the big #1 blocks off the smaller #1's around it's place on the grid. The actors becoming active or spawning on the grid would be in random positions.
I also do not want more than one actor spawned/active on the same spot. But more than one can spawn at the same time. I would like to control how many spawn at the same time. The smaller number 1's could overlap, but not the big 1's.
Any help would be awesome! 
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Does the below template help?
I will send you a link as were not allowed to post here.
No need for tables if you're just evenly spacing actors on a grid. I started making a demo to post last week but didn't finish it. I'm sure someone else has a demo or can explain the process but basically you would use a loop that changes the X position and then checks to see when the X position is at the edge of the scene and changes the Y position and resets the X position to the start of the "row."
Another free one that will help is below.
http://www.deepblueapps.com/collisions-with-tables-template/
Thanks for the vid! But I'm not too sure if that is exactly what I am looking for. I won't have an actor moving on top of them an activating them as he moves by them. I really just need to spawn an actor and if it's condition is not checked it spawns another actor on all 8 of the other actors around it. And it is on the side it would be missing 3 of the side actors or in a corner it would only have 3. Maybe your template is helpful in a way I don't quite understand?
Hey, @tatiang! Thanks for the reply. That sound pretty complicated. I'm not sure how to go about that. :P
Try my 2nd post above it uses the same method as Tat was on about.
@DeepBlueApps I actually have the second one you posted. And maybe it would be easier to use the table method but I would have to have some way to affect the tiles around an actor. Im pretty stumped on this.
example: Actor is spawned, time runs out to meet the condition, all 8 surrounding actors are turned off? Well I guess that wouldn't really work because I would need more than just an on and off state...