respawn

[CdaMarinersFan]

Hmmm... I'm having a hard time getting a ship to respawn from a timer it (the ship) creates on event destroy actor. Anyone got suggestions? I want the ship to respawn after a five-second timer is up, and it is counted only once.

[plinydogg]

I have had similar issues before...the problem may be the fact that you are creating a timer on an actor that is then destroyed. That is, when you destroy the actor, it might destroy the timer along with it.

[StarFishDesign]

Together with the destruction of the Actor create a new Actor (which is invisible, a Smiley-Only actor). And on this actor create a new Timer... if this timer reaches the 5 secs mark... re-create your ship-actor.

Should work...

[CdaMarinersFan]

shall try that... thx...pretty good idea...ah, man. I already needed an actor saying "Respawning Player *", I could just use that rofl

[CdaMarinersFan]

Want to know another glitch? try "access violation 0x0045DF46 (tried to read at 0x0000018E), program terminated."! Makslane, you really need to help me with this, else no one may be able to play my game...

[makslane]

Send me the game, and tell me how can I repeat the error.

[CdaMarinersFan]

I'll send the game by email, then try to destroy any ship (besides Player 3, it doesn't shut down on it, dunno why...) use arrow keys to move Player 3 and down is to shoot...

[makslane]

I didn't receive. Make sure put the subject of this thread in the email

[CdaMarinersFan]

didn't send it yet went to Seattle before trying to, but I'll try to send it on PM, since Hotmail & Yahoo think it may contain a "virus", in which it doesn't.

[makslane]

To avoid this crash now, in the actor p4respawn -> Timer -> Create Actor don't set the parent to 'Parent Actor'.

This crash will be fixed in next version.

[CdaMarinersFan]

whew, how'd you come up w/ that?

must take some micro rofl