Random objects without overlapping

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    Hello everyone

    I'm looking for some information or advice again. As I continue learning Fusion, I give myself challenges that would be useful for a game I will work on in the future, and I try to solve them by myself. And every now and then I come upon a problem that I just can't seem to solve. So here is one I'm stuck at now.

    I'm trying to spawn 10 objects with random location, but without overlapping. Here's what I came up with

    - On key press (space) I start fast loop "spawn" 10 times
    - On fast loop "spawn" i create object A and move it to x rrandom(0,640) and y rrandom (0,480).

    It creates 10 objects on random locations but often they overlap, so I added

    -Object A overlaps object A : destroy object A

    So now I usually end with 8 and sometimes 6 objects, depending of how many of them overlap. Now for game I'll be working on, this will not be a problem as it would give it even more randomnes. But I would still like to figure out how to end up with all 10 objects.

    Is there a way to keep running fast loop until there are 10 objects left without overlapping? Or a way to look for overlapping inside fast loop? It kind of looks weird at the moment actually seeing objects get deleted after spawn.

    I tried adding:
    - object A overlaps object A: destroy object A
    : run fastloop "spawn" 10 times minus number of object A
    but didn't get any good results

    I have a feeling there's something really simple I'm missing but I just can't seem to figure it out at the moment :)

    So I made some progress. This is what I have now:

    - NObjects (A) < 10 : Start loop "spawn" 10 - Nobjects (A)
    - On loop "spawn" : Create A, set x and y position Rrandom (number, number)
    - A is overlapping A : Destroy A

    It works like a charm, every time I run application, 10 objects are created on random position without overlapping. But now I lost the ability to manually execute spawn:( Because if I add "on keypress" like this:
    - NObjects (A) < 10 : Start loop "spawn" 10 - Nobjects (A)
    on press "space"
    - On loop "spawn" : Create A, set x and y position Rrandom (number, number)
    - A is overlapping A : Destroy A
    then I have to press space again if some of the objects get destroyed. It's a progress but not quite what I want at the moment

    There's a couple ways you could approach this
    - Rather than destroying them, have overlapping objects move themselves a bit (e.g. 'Set X Position to X("Active 1") + rrandom(-5,5)' or something along those lines)

    Alternatively, something like this could work:
    1. On press space, start fast loop "loopX" 10 times

    2. On fastloop "loopX", start fastloop "loopY" 10 times

    3. On fastloop "loopY"
    - Limit Conditions: 1 out of 10 chances
    -- Create object at 0,0
    -- set object X position to 64*LoopIndex("loopX") + rrandom(-20,20)
    -- set object Y position to 48*LoopIndex("loopX") + rrandom(-20,20)

    This will create ~10 objects that (depending on how you tweak the random numbers and the size of the objects) shouldn't overlap

    Thank you both. I feel kind of stupid for not thinking about moving the objects:) It just felt so logical to destroy them and create new ones...
    I managed to do it in the meantime, using a group in which I placed the previous code and activating it with space:D
    But moving the overlapping ones is way better and cleaner, thanks.

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