How do I use sprite (repeatedly) for spawn on LoS?

Hi again fantastic community,

I have a sprite ='spawner' and it spawns enemies when in sight of player. This works until....

now, I have a global variable ='enemy_count'. So I can limit the spawn count.

sys spawn_count > 5 | spawner | set animation to 'fin'

ELSE_

spawner | has LoS to Player| spawner | * spawn 'enemy' to layout #

* spawner | Add 1 to spawn_count

so, it stops spawning once reaching 5. THIS BIT WORKS!

The problem is, I want to clone spawner all over my layout, but once 5 is reached, it affects ALL and I really only want it to affect 1 at a time.

My brain is melting here!

Thanks for your time.guys.

Roberto

My thoughts are,

I need to start with spawner has LoS rather than variable.

You'll need to use instance variables on the spawner object itself rather than a global variable. You have spawner.var is the count of enemies spawned. If one has LOS and spawns an enemy then add 1 to spawner.var, with the condition that spawner.var is less than 5.

okay, think I cracked it now.

spawner | has LoS of Player

Sys| spawn_count=5 | spawner Destroy

Spawner | spawn 'stale spawner'

Sys Z Set spawn_count = 0

ELSE

<<do something>>

I created another sprite called 'stale spawner'

Arrrrgh Yes, thank you plinkie. I wasn't thinking straight!

Thanks plinkie

ok no problem ^^