Im having a bit of trouble with my spawn system, it works fine somtimes but othertimes it doesent work right, since in both MMF and TGF, the PICK RANDOM OBJECT condition is a bit shakey. Im trying to think of a new system, but having a bit of trouble. Mabye sombody else can show me a difrent way? I just need it so every say.. 10 secs, it sets a number from random 0 - 10, if the number = 1 then create a object from a random location. The object cannot overlap another object aswell. Any ideas?
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Assault Andy Administrator
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4th September, 2003 at 00:27:27 -
Yeah sure:
Every 10 secs - set counter to random(10) + 1
if counter = 1 - create player at 0,0; player.x,y = Random(screenwidth,height); set counter to 0
Well since there is alot of guns, that would take alot of code to make everything move over. Plus, I only want one gun to spawn since it would make the game uneven if a player could get every gun in one spot.
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Actuley thats just the problem. When I spawn a weapon, I check to see if there is already a weapon overlaping the spawn box. And since groups work when they WANT to, it doesent work all the time. :/ (Taking the line of code that checks overlap, makes it work perfectly)
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Well again, this system revolves around that one line of code.
X Weapon is overlaping Spawn
That line is *Insert Bad Word*
I tryed checking all weapons instead of checking the group. And for some reason that doesent work, I guess its to much or somthin. If somehow I could check for the group in a box area. This seems to work better, but I want to make it so it auto finds the spawn box, and checks for the group in an area around that spawn. So that if I make a level editor, players can place spawn boxes anywhere they want, and it auto draws a box around it and checks for the group.
Since all the guns stay in the same position, perhaps I should try to ask if a group is at same X,Y pos as spawn box. :/
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That's true. A while ago I made a spawner that spawns monsters at various locations, but for some reason it wasn't working well. Then it worked, and everything was fine...if you want I can send it to you, as it could probably be easily modified for weapons.(Only one possible problem I can see)
Thats exactly what happned to me, its now stable. But when I add a new weapon, somthin will go wrong and some gun wont spawn. But then it seems to fix it self, I only hope they spawn when I release the game.
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It must have something to do with the order the events are added to the lines. Might have to be EXACTLY right for it to work properly...and every time you add a new weapon the events are added in the "wrong" order until you rearrange it and it finally starts working again...
I think your exactly right, its a very touchy group of code.
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Assault Andy Administrator
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11th September, 2003 at 00:44:59 -
Actually, that's exactly what my code does.
Every 10 secs - set counter to random(10) + 1
if counter = 1 - create player at 0,0; player.x,y = Random(screenwidth,height); set counter to 0.
If player is overlapping a player
+ pick player at random - destroy player.
^^ This part makes it so the player can't be created on walls, if you don't want him destroyed just change it to:
If player is overlapping a player
+ pick player at random - player.x,y = Random(screenwidth,height)
Assult andy, I didnt think of Picking Random Gun at random, to destroy. Since I tryed making it so, if a gun is overlaping a gun, destroy gun. But then it just destroyed both the guns.
Kramy, I will defintly try this if my spawn code goes wonky again, thank you.
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