Killing Actors

[Parrot]

I've got this code that I'd thought would delete all the clones of an actor that still exist:

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    int i;
    for(i=0; i<5; i++)
    {
        if(getclone("green.i"))
        {
            DestroyActor("green.i");
        }
    }


There are at most 5, some may have already been destroyed. This is supposed to go through each, see if it exists, and if it does destroy it.

It's not working properly though. Am I using getclone improperly?

I think I may also be concatenating improperly, it's hard to find information on this in the help files.

[makslane]

Use the getclone2 function:
http://game-editor.com/forum/viewtopic. ... =getclone2

[Parrot]

Thanks Mak, I'll use that. But I think that's not the only problem. I suspect it's a problem with concatenation, could you give me the proper syntax to concatenate a number to the end of a string? I tried this code:

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    int i;
    for(i=0; i<5; i++)
    {
         DestroyActor("green.i");
    }


and it only destroyed one of the "green" actors.

[makslane]

To destroy all green actors, just use:

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DestroyActor("green");

Don't need any loops.

[Parrot]

To destroy all green actors, just use:

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DestroyActor("green");

Don't need any loops.

What I would like to do is destroy them one at a time with a small pause between.

[DilloDude]

Probably the simplest way is to store them in an array, and loop through the array and destroy them.