How do I prevent power up spawning near player.

Hi guys,

I'm making this game that has powerups in it. It works great, but the problem is that sometimes the powerups spawn directly under my player. Since i have a power up that kills the player, i don't want this. The game is a platform game, with max x=1920. Can somebody help me make sure that the powerups spawn like 50 pixels away from my player. This is how my powerups now look like.

powerupspawn = 14 ---> create object (powerup) on layer 1 at (random(0, 1920), 850)

Can anyone help me? I read some other posts but i really didn't get how i should do this. It is also hard to test, because it doesn't happen frequently. So really need help. Game is almost ready to publish!

Thanks!

From what I understand of this event you could try adding a second event before the event that kills your player which would be something like

powerup overlapping player - set position (power up) to player.x +50

that might work you just have to make sure this even is read before the kill event or it will still kill your nplayer

I guess at the moment it is spawned a overlap or collision would get triggered so you either add some timeout to the powerup or get a coordinate that's far enough away to begin with...

Guess something like this could work:

Every 1 seconds is, of course, your event for powerup spawning - and if the random number is too close it gets spawned again until it's far enough away.

I guess at the moment it is spawned a overlap or collision would get triggered so you either add some timeout to the powerup or get a coordinate that's far enough away to begin with...

Guess something like this could work:

Every 1 seconds is, of course, your event for powerup spawning - and if the random number is too close it gets spawned again until it's far enough away.

thanks, I will give that a try.