How to trigger an event based on the travelled distance of an object

Hi Guys,

I'm making and endless falling game and i'd like to trigger an event each time an object has traveled X distance. For example I'd like to trigger and event when the object has fell a distance of 1000. So an event is triggered when the object reaches the Y coordinate of 1000,2000,3000 etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)

Thanks

You add a variable "yLimit = 1000". And then, every time that the object.Y is greater than yLimit, you add yLimit to itself and trigger the event that you want.

I made a little example, it' in my Drive:

drive.google.com/file/d/1DrZbXNXvIXdRJwF_-OqsgrUXO5u3IWfe/view

Hope it helps,

Isaac

Use behavior Bullet on you object then set an instance variable "example_A" to 1

bullet distance traveled = 1000 * "example_A"

event action + add to example_A + 1

This uses distance traveled rather than coordinate to trigger.

sinfulj's example is close to a good solution.

It has a few pitfalls though.

You will want to make sure you are in a 1000 pixels range of your next "iteration".

So have your instance variable "fallDist" which will be equal to 0, 1, and so on. Its default value should be 0 though.

Then your condition should be :

Bullet distance travelled >= [(greater or equal)] to 1000 * (fallDist+1)

And as action, you do indeed add 1 to fallDist and any other of the actions you want to happen on a regular basis every 1000 pixels.

Thanks guys for the suggestion I'll try them out and let you know if I was able to acheive the result I'm looking for. Although I should have told you that I'm using the Physics behavior and not the bullet behavior.

I was assuming the bullet behavior was already enabled.

If distFall=0 at the start when it hits 1000px it will stay 1000.

Anyways I've only been coding for bouts 2 months. Sorry I i got it wrong