Help With 'Delay' - Is It Possible?

[HRMNKRDN]

Hi there,

I'm working on a pong-like game. When the ball leaves the play area, it is destroyed and recreated at the centre of the screen. That's all well and good, but I want to insert a couple seconds' pause between the ball's destruction and recreation. How do I go about implementing this?

Thanks in advance for your help,

HK

[Popcorn]

Have a group of events which is deactivated from start.
In here put an event to add 1 to a counter every second. When the counter is 3, create the ball and deactivate the group.

When the ball is destroyed, activate the group of events. This can be done from the Special icon in the event editor.

[Sterling7]

An alternate (possibly not as elegant) suggestion:

when ball is created, set x to 3

if number of objects (ball) =0, every 1 second, subtract 1 from x

when x=0, create ball, set x to 3.