Creating 425 actors

[Troodon]

Hi,
How can I make the 'create actor' make for example 425 actors?
I'm working on a graphic effect and I need to have big amounts of different actors created randombly in the screen. However I don't know how to make many actor at once without typing 400 lines of code.
Please help.

[Sgt. Sparky]

how big is the screen?
for a 800x600 screen use:

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CreateActor("Particle", "particleAnimation", "(none)", "(none)", rand(800), rand(600), false);

and if you Game is 30fps,
it will create 30 actors a second

[Troodon]

Sparky, I don't want to have 30 actors in second, I want to have n amount of actors in one event once.

For example think that you are making a game where you are on a planet. You want to have in the beginning of the game a random nature (trees, stones etc). You think that the island looks natural when it has 80 trees in random position. It would look pretty weird if your actor should avoid trees growing everywhere every second, wouldn't it?

[Sgt. Sparky]

okay,
on the create actor Event do that 425 times....
I do no know any other way

[makslane]

Try this:

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int i;

for(i = 0; i < 425; i++)
{
  CreateActor("Particle", "particleAnimation", "(none)", "(none)", rand(800), rand(600), false);
}

[Troodon]

It works like a new cow! Thanks!