spawning instances

thanks in advance!

Im stumped on why this wont work...

I want the player to only be able to spawn a new instance when there isn't not one already on the screen...the object has to leave the layout before a new one can be spawned...

I have an event that looks like this with 2 conditions and one action:

keyboard - on space is pressed | Spawnerobject | Spawn Sprite1

Sprite1 - X is on-screen

its simple enough but isn't working.

any ideas?

thanks

Is on-screen

True if any part of the object's bounding box is within the screen area. This is not affected by the object's visibility or opacity.

So if this isn't working this condition isn't met.

Maybe destroy your original sprite on start of layout.

Maybe change the bounding box.

But you are not saying what isn't working, and what unexpected things are happening, so I could be wrong.

LittleStain

well, im trying to have it so that I when the object is on the screen, the player cant spawn more objects...so there will only be one object on the screen at a time...

the project file is here:

dropbox.com/s/dab5terulvojqq9/spawner.capx

im not sure why this simple logic isn't working still....anyone?

thanks

Dan

try this:

Condition:

-On any click

--Sprite2.count <= 0

Action:

-Spawn Sprite2

Condition:

-Sprite2 is on-screen (invert)

Action:

-Destroy Sprite2

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85412219/forumposts/spawning1only.capx

This also uses the sprite count, and sets the behavior "destroy outside layout"

thanks ill try these!