If you are trying to get your game to run in GS on the older devices (iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 2nd Gen, etc) then with their limited amount of memory recycling is a good idea. However, if you are satisf

On the heels of JohnP's advice to avoid Spawning and destroying too many actors in my game he suggested that I simply move the actor outside the viewing area and then back to the viewing area when it'

you can have all your actors offscren when you want to spawn something just move the actor thats offsreen onto the screen by changing its position, then when you want to destroy move it offscreen agai

gamesalad doesnt release the memory when you spawn and destroy an actor. So if you keep spawnign continusly threw your game the memory will eventualy build up enough to crash your game.

I've read a few posts here and there that stay something to the effect to not use spawn actor...

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Are you using Timer: FOR 1 second spawn actor, or EVERY 1 second spawn actor?

Thanks sooooo much! I think I know what the problem is now... I did use a timer once, but thought that it didn't work so I posted here. Turns out they were spawning outside of the walls so i couldn't

@hachinko, I already tried what you said as it made sense, but get mixed results as I try draw the line quickly and let go the last line still has some width to it. Maybe if I spawn another dot after

1) I realized that the actor should spawn at 0 degrees otherwise the orientation is wrong

replacement for the old weapon. Whereby it would spawn 'projectile' actors in a different way, and at a different rate than before (not to mention the actors it spawned would be different actors, to

replacement for the old weapon. Whereby it would spawn 'projectile' actors in a different way, and at a different rate than before (not to mention the actors it spawned would be different actors, to

i think something like this would work, lets say you have an attribute called actorsOnScreen and you have it set to 10, and another one spawnedActors

make a rule saying: If input > Actors, spawn actor (Random location), and add actors+1 until they were the same. Unfortunately this isn't the case and it doesn't work at all. Much help would b

Also let me clarify my statement about spawn killing performance. If your doing a lot of spawns at a time, then yes it will hurt performance (like firing bullets for instance). If your just occasion

Spawn actor at position y=0 direction 90degrees (up)

Can't you spawn a "last" point when player touch ends? Meaning, you use all the spawn line code, then when player lift the finger (so they finished to draw their path), another one i

I'm quite new to this creator and to this site. I just found BarkBarkCo's "Move by Spawn" here: http://gamesalad.com/game/play/55218 and added some new stuff.

spawn line on the X position (negative or plus depending on what side actor 1 is on)

I think it should be possible if you spawn two new actors and calculate how long they should be based on the distance between the cut and the object.