How do I spawn sprites in a circle formation?

Hi guys

I was trying to crack this for a while. But my scirra skills are not there yet.

If i would like to spawn coin sprites in a circle formation, like say for every 30 degrees. Is there a smart way of doing that? I tried messing with set spawn locations but i feel there should be a better way of doing it.

Cheers

I'm pretty sure there is a plugin on the Scirra Store for this...

try:

360/30= 12

here is a solution without math

In this case it's 45 degrees and I just made some additional image points to my sprite 1 object

Edit: Sprite1 could be an invisible helper and you set the image point wherever you like (like 12 image points around the Sprite1)

FYI:

Spawn point - (x,y)

where:

x = CenterX + RADIUS * cos(YourAngle)

y = CenterY + RADIUS * sin(YourAngle)

CenterX, CenterY - center of your circle

RADIUS - circle radius

YourAngle - angle you want from 0 to 359

I think korbaach's solution is better (imo)

Amazing guys. Always new ways of doing stuff pop up.

Thanks a million.

Cheers

here is a solution without math

In this case it's 45 degrees and I just made some additional image points to my sprite 1 object

Edit: Sprite1 could be an invisible helper and you set the image point wherever you like (like 12 image points around the Sprite1)

What exactly is the 'local number = image point 1' and how is it being used? I'm not recalling how to create such at thing.

it is a local variable (type number, start value = 1) for the repeat loop.

each loop the local variable is increased by 1 and create a sprite "Sprite2" at next image point of sprite "Sprite".

Local variables are variables placed nested under other events, or inside a group(right click on event to create add a local variable)

it is a local variable (type number, start value = 1) for the repeat loop.

each loop the local variable is increased by 1 and create a sprite "Sprite2" at next image point of sprite "Sprite".

Local variables are variables placed nested under other events, or inside a group(right click on event to create add a local variable)

but isn't that meaning you also have image points all around the "Sprite" object? cause without them you wouldn't have a 360 degrees pattern

try:

360/30= 12

oh now i see the use of Sin and Cos nice thanks man

should be only one additional image point,you can rotate spriteSpawner

Brilliant. Thanks again guys.

should be only one additional image point,you can rotate spriteSpawner

Holy crap! That looks like a genius idea! I hope to remember to try that.