Help with "Every X seconds" between layouts.

Hello Everyone,

I need your help to resolve this problem.

I have two layouts: Layout1 and Layout2 .

In the Layout1 you can select missions, meanwhile in Layout2 you play.

The problem I have is the following:

In the Layout2 I have Every 5 seconds an enemy appears.

But, if you stay in the Layout1 without select any mission and the 5 seconds already passed when you enter to layout2 the enemy is there...

The 5 seconds pass meanwhile you are in the Layout1.

How can I do that the "Every 5 seconds" only works when you are in the Layout2 ?

Thanks in advance and best regards.

Have a variable that is set to 1 only when the player is on that layout. So you would make an event that changes it to 1 on start of layout, then give the spawning event another condition that tells it the variable needs to equal 1

Hello EncryptedCow,

I tried with the global variable with different value in the layouts and doesn't work.

Layout1

On Start of layout set variable=1

if (variable=1)   every X seconds

Layout2

On Start of layout   set variable=2

if (variable=2) every x seconds

I also tried comparing variable, values (layoutName), and other conditions such as layout end loading...

But, nothing works, the "every x seconds" just ignore those ones.

It seems that from the start of the game without matters what layout is, the "every X seconds" is always running.

Any idea?

Hi,

I Tried a couple other things such as setting group and...

didn't work....

Anyone else was dealing with this issue before?

Are both layouts using the same event sheet? If so, consider creating one event sheet for each layout. Then it can't add to the variable unless it's on layout2.

I have the same problem in spawning enemies, but in my case I can�t put in differents style sheets, because happens when I restart level.

Shouldn�t restart layout or on layout start, restart the time in the level?

Hello Julian,

What I found is when you use the Every X seconds, does not work with the create object or spawn action.

Instead I created a variable that every X seconds add one.

I mean,

Variable time= 0

Every X seconds - > Add 1 to Time.

Then If I want to create an enemy every 5 seconds for example.

If time = 5 create object (or spawn).

And this works perfect.

Best Regards