Spawn items along a designated track

Hi there,

is there a way to randomly spawn an item every X seconds within a certain area?

I have a top down racer, so I want power ups to appear randomly along the track.

Thanks!!

Andy

Thanks - but that will spawn anywhere on the screen don’t it?

I need to endure they spawn along my race track, which is full of twists and turns.

Apologies if I didn’t explain myself

Here's one possible solution.

Create a new sprite, and place it at the start of your track. Also set it's initial visibility to invisible. The idea is you'll place instances of this object around the track like a dotted line along the shape of the track. For simplicity you should create the instances as you go around the track so they'll be in order for event purposes.

global number i=0
global number t=0

start of layout
repeat 10 times
-- set i to int(random(sprite.count))
-- set t to random(1)
-- create tree at lerp(sprite(i).x, sprite(i+1).x, t), lerp(sprite(i).y, sprite(i+1).y, t)
-- tree move random(-40, 40) pixels at angle 90+angle(sprite(i).x,sprite(i).y,sprite(i+1).x,sprite(i+1).y)

Wow thanks - but this has totally lost me!

I think you’re right - I should create all the instances around the track with visibility set to invisible and then what I want to do is toggle the visibility of them in a random order each time there is a collision with the first one. So there are never more than one on visible at a time.

So if I have:

SpriteA

SpriteB

SpriteC

SpriteA is visible from layout start

When the car collides with SpriteA, randomly choose another Sprite from the list (in this example B or C) and make that visible.

If the car collides with the new one, again, choose a random Sprite from the list to make visible next.

Does this make sense?

Thanks so much

Andy

Thanks - but that will spawn anywhere on the screen don’t it?

I need to endure they spawn along my race track, which is full of twists and turns.

Apologies if I didn’t explain myself

This is not spawn an object anywhere on the screen but at a square 100x100 px at upper left of the map.

You can change this numbers at any time and move the square at any point of your map..