Creating waves with different time to spawn all [SOLVED]

Oshigawa
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Creating waves with different time to spawn all [SOLVED] Mar 10, 2016 12:37:24 GMT

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Post by Oshigawa on Mar 10, 2016 12:37:24 GMT

Hello,

the question is quite simple, but i can't seem to find the answer in the manual. The situation is following:

I have two syncro spawners, one for spawning enemies, one for spawning background asteroids. I have several waves of enemies which have "time to spawn all" of 5 seconds. According to that, i can't set the asteroid wave time to be longer than 5 seconds, and i need it to keep churning out the asteroids throughout the level. I can make several waves, but i think that's not the point.

Any suggestions?

Last Edit: Mar 11, 2016 9:25:54 GMT by Oshigawa

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Creating waves with different time to spawn all [SOLVED] Mar 10, 2016 17:06:55 GMT

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Post by DarkTonic Dev on Mar 10, 2016 17:06:55 GMT

First of all, you are going to create more waves, unless you want the player to win your game in 5 seconds

. "Game Over: Win" is triggered when the last wave is completed, and it sounds like your one wave takes 5 seconds.

Anyway, I'd spawn the asteroids not in a Syncro Spawner (because they have nothing to do with winning the game or not it sounds like) and use a Triggered Spawner instead, Start event wave. Triggered Spawners are not known by the Global Waves you set up and can repeat forever if you like.

Last Edit: Mar 10, 2016 17:07:24 GMT by DarkTonic Dev

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Creating waves with different time to spawn all [SOLVED] Mar 11, 2016 9:11:26 GMT

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Post by Oshigawa on Mar 11, 2016 9:11:26 GMT

As i said, i have several waves of enemies, and every wave lasts five seconds, the thing is the waves from the asteroid spawner have to match the duration of the enemy spawner (i guess that's why they are called SYNCRO

).

Anyway, it works fine with triggered spawner, thanks

DarkTonic Dev Administrator Posts: 4,296 Posts: 4,296	Creating waves with different time to spawn all [SOLVED] Mar 11, 2016 17:41:39 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by DarkTonic Dev on Mar 11, 2016 17:41:39 GMT They're called Syncro because we wrote it for our first game, where enemies would come from 8 spawners at the same time (syncro) in waves we set up globally. Cool, no problem.

Creating waves with different time to spawn all [SOLVED]

Post by Oshigawa on Mar 10, 2016 12:37:24 GMT

Post by DarkTonic Dev on Mar 10, 2016 17:06:55 GMT

Post by Oshigawa on Mar 11, 2016 9:11:26 GMT

Post by DarkTonic Dev on Mar 11, 2016 17:41:39 GMT

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