Delaying a player from spawing immediately

[aylictal]

heres an example using the eggtimer object, which is what you originally wanted to do (i think?)

the timer here is checking 3 seconds after the last death of the sheep, and can easily be modified or copied.

timer to spawn.mfa

[Danny]

I have quickly done up an example for you in 5 events. This could be abbreviated to just two events, but for the example I included movements in there to display it working for you.

This is assembled using 2 events using the game's FPS timer instead of the built-in timer as this can (on some platforms) cause issues. With using the framerate to determine the timer it's guaranteed to keep up with your game/app at all times.

jbrown-playerspawn.mfa

[KLiK-iT]

ChrisBurrows example is perfect for this. There are so many ways of doing this sort of thing and they are all good. I usually use the objects alterable values and just set the object off screen then reposition it after the delay is finish. Four events like Chris's

[ChrisBurrows]

If you don't mind counting deep into the treacherous depths of negative infinity, it can be done in 3 events.

[Danny]

Sorry to be Negative towards yours Chris, but I shot the target 3 times and it didn't respawn. You need to remove 'Only One Condition When Event Loops' and retry with <= 0. It can skip, as it did with me. No need for only once event loop because you're 'Always' means its subtracting a number all the time so it would only hit 0 or -1 once anyway before resetting :p

[KLiK-iT]

Kind of strange, Mr. Borrows example in post 14 works fine on my end every time. Nice Chris! Me likey!!

[ChrisBurrows]

Mmmm I rushed that one.

[Grim_Jester]

Madness. You've gone too far!

If you don't mind counting deep into the treacherous depths of negative infinity, it can be done in 3 events.