spawner on (3/globalvariable) seconds - restart issue

I have my project set up to spawn an object every 3/variable seconds, this is so I can increase/decrease/stop the speed of the spawner when a certain events are triggered.

This works fine the first time around but when the layout is reset (go to layout is the same) the spawner doesn't trigger at all. when I remove the /variable then everything works as expected.

I have made sure the variable resets (as I realize dividing by 0 would cause this), and the objects to be spawned are on the layout when it resets.

ps. Thanks for all the help so far, I will pay it forward as I get more knowledgeable.

Would be helpful if you could provide a sample capx to demonstrate the problem. This whole trigger business can be quite confusing.

No problem faulknermano, I've figured out that the fault lies in letting the variable get to 0, if I reset it to 0.1 or above it then it works fine. But this isn't ideal.

Here's the capx https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sv3geztg3w3x ... .capx?dl=0

You can see the issue by pressing pause before pressing the reset button.

shaundraws, quite an interesting problem. I think because you are using a System condition (for every x seconds) it may not take a 'divide by zero' kindly. Perhaps there is a internal state issue causing the condition to break down once it has reached that.

My suggestion is to use your own timer. I've modified a bit of the capx as an example of how I might approach it.

capx

(Using your own math for randomising using the speedmultiplier variable, I've put the value into a variable called 'interval' which is the time that the ongoing timer needs to reach before spawning. The timer simply increments at delta-time per tick, and then resetting back to 0 when interval is reached)