I'm now pausing by using a game.paused boolean attribute, with a rule for all actors that spawn, animate or move. The change attribute works like this :-

I have a timer elsewhere that spawns an actor every "random(MinTime,MaxTime)"

For me the killer Is bullet spawn with laser fx. I now have an actor which controls the fx with 0.2 delay so it does not collide with the bullet spawn.

I've noticed problems with spawning and timers with my game, but after asking the GS staff nicely to offer some advice I was able to pull everything together (luckily too, what with MacWorld being thi

and the enemy. Or even have the fighter actor spawn an invisible actor that moves out at the same speed as the arm and is destroyed when it gets to the end of the arm length (use magnitude to determi

In my build running on 0.7 every sound was playing perfect and the collisions where perfect too with every actor enemy exploding and dying in perfect harmony....now my game doesn't play sound ( and

hey guys,after i pause my scene n go back to the scene scene,all the spawner not working anymore...help pls...i have preserve the game scene

means, i have an actor that spawn an image every 0 second (all the time),

Maybe have one game attribute counter called "NumOfActorXYZSpawned" that gets incremented each time an actor of type XYZ is spawned. Then in each XYZ actor spawned, you have an acto

i have an actor that spawn other actors every time the key is pressed,

word on the street is that spawning is less laggy in 0.8.3.

same actions are in the same place; e.g. if the spawn actor action is on the background image on one level, keep it the same for other levels. I found that enemies were spawing enemies, the health b

It's hard to move forward on complex games when preserve scene is buggy and spawn actor doesn't always work.

My game worked well with version 7. Since the spawn function does not work properly!? This is a bug?

Short answer: No, not at this time unless you spawn actors.

I did have a change scene actor with preserve checkbox, but it wasn't used before the spawning should occur. I unchecked the box and still the actors do not spawn reliably.

Not any easy way I know of. I don't think layer (or Z position) is an attribute of an actor. You would need some trickery to have a "GameItems" layer and an "ActiveItem&am

If spawning, make sure you spawn them appropriately in front/behind of spawning actor's layer or the layer itself (they are settings in the spawn command).

Woops I forgot to add that after the two constrain behaviors you need a spawn behavior to spawn the canon ball. duh!

THe work around i have been doing is have your change scene button spawn a blank actor that has: