Q: How to create actor based on timer status.

[zupernoc]

- I have an actor called "level_01" which creates various actors and events upon its creation.

- I have an actor called "level_01_clock", that is created when level_01 is created.

- I have a timer called "timer_level_01_clock" that is created when "level_clock" is created.

- "Level_01_clock" increments itself by 1 each second and outputs the text to the screen, so I know its working.

My question is, how do I create actors based on the timer_level_01_clock? Example, at 120 seconds, create this alienblah, and at 5 minutes into the game create this alienblah2.

Thank you.
-Eric

[makslane]

You can use your count variable. If you increment each second, try this:

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if(count == 120)
{
    //CreateActor action here
}

[zupernoc]

Thank you.

Previously, within the actor_clock script, I had

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actor_clock.textNumber  = actor_clock.textNumber +1;

Per this suggestion, I have added the line

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 if (actor_clock.textNumber = 2)  //2 seconds
 {
   //create actorblah
 }

The good news is it does indeed create this actorblah upon reaching a counter of 2. Yet, it continues to create the actor over and over, and the actor_clock does not increment.

Any ideas? Granted the entire code is not listed here, however I am curious if the solution to the above problem is obvious, and something I am overlooking.

[Novice]

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 if (actor_clock.textNumber = 2)

Should be

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 if (actor_clock.textNumber == 2)

= is
== equals
Common mistake

[zupernoc]

Thank you. That did part of the trick.

I was previously incrementing actor_clock.textNumber. This time I added an integer "counter" along with it (incrementing both), and did

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if (counter == 7)

Thank you again. Perhaps i was comparing a string to number?