Why are not all of my factories spawning? (SOLVED)

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#1

Hello guys!
I have factory prefab to create cars on roads, but if I place more than one in the collection, only the first works and creates cars. What’s wrong? I’m new at Defold so I’m not sure where the problem could be.
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#2

local variables in .script or .gui_script scopes are shared between instances of the script.
In you code the variables period and cooldown are shared, that means that every time when coldown is less then 0 you increase it for all the instances of this script and the other instances do not spawn object until the next time when condition cooldown <= 0 is true.

The simplest way to fix if is using self.cooldown and self.period instead of local variables.

#3

Thanks! Now it’s working

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#4

An improvement to get rid of the update() function is to use a timer instead:

local function spawn(self)
   -- note: you can skip passing go.get_position() and rotation since the spawned objects will inherit position and rotation from this object 
   factory.create("#factory", go.get_position(), go.get_rotation())
end

function init(self)
    -- call the spawn function repeatedly (true) every "cooldown" seconds
    timer.delay(cooldown, true, spawn)
end
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#5

Welcome to the forum by the way!

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#6

Thanks