Whenever a timer increases with 10 spawn object

Questions
1

In the update function in one of my script files i have self.time = self.time+1 so it should increase with 1 each frame and i wonder if it possible to have that each time self.time has increased with 10 a game object should be spawned?

2

So you want to spawn an object every 10 frames?

First I would recommend doing self.time = self.time + dt since each frame might have a different frequency, this will allow you more regularity.

Then you can do:

If self.time >= 10 then
 -- spawn here with factory.create(...) for example
self.time = self.time - 10
end

Hope it helps!

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thanks thats a good idea! i tried it but my factory doesnt spawn anything for some reason, i dont know why it doesnt work :confused:

i just tried adding a print(self.time) and i guess it should print 10 but it doesnt print anything at all :o

4

Did you maybe forgot to attach the script component to your object?

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5

No i have my zombie factory and my rocket.script in my rocket.go so i think that isnt the error

6

Does a print in the init shows something?

Is it zombies you want to spawn every ten frames? What GO is your factory attached to? Itā€™s a script attached to this same GO that should have the print in the init.

Its just that Iā€™m frequently creating new script and forgetting to attach them to GO and spending 30min trying to figure out why it doesnā€™t work. So I know itā€™s an easy mistake to make :smile:

7

haha okay :smile: I want to spawn zombies as the player live longer and longer, both the script and factory is attached to my rocket.go , i wrote print(100) in init in rocket.script and it showed so that seems to work atleast

8

anyone else have any ideas whats wrong?:slightly_smiling_face:

9

Please share the entire script so that we can take a look.

10 
timer.delay(10, false, function()
    for i = 1, 10 do
        factory.create("#zombies")
     end
end)

Above should spawn 10 objects of ā€œzombiesā€ factory every 10 second. Make sure your factory have a correct prototype. If you are using position in the ā€˜createā€™ function, maybe you want to use get_world_position?
But if the print statement isnā€™t showing there must be something else

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Hello, iā€™ve managed to spawn zombies with my factory now, i had to create a new go and new script and chose zombie.go as prototype, so for some reason it didnt work when i used rocket.script even though it was connected with the factory and i used the samed code :o