Random object creation not working properly on Android

[pcrono]

Hi everyone!

I hope I'm writing this in the right section. I'm quite new to clickteam and I have run into an issue that I don't know how to solve or what causes it.

In short. I'm making a simple side scrolling jumper game. I made so that there are different objects which are created randomly outside of the screen and then come in with a set speed.

- I set up different event groups beacuse as the game progresses the speed of objects is set faster and I want to deactivate the the ones which are not used at the moment.
- Only the current speeds group is active at the time of running. When the player get a certain amount of points the first random generator group is deactivated and the second one with higher speed values is activated.
- The objects are created in these event groups and are destroyed when they get too far from the frame on the other side.

So it runs like this:
- The program checks the randomObject Global value if it is 0
- It is set that it runs every 3 second so it creates obstacles every 3 seconds (with higher speed it generates faster)
- it only happens if the player score is below a certain number.
- I set it so it runs once per loop
(If the above are all true)
-- Set randomObject value to random(0,1)
-- Create object at set coordinates
-- Set speed of object

the second event in the event group looks similar:
- The program checks the randomObject Global value if it is 1
- It is set that it runs every 3 second so it creates obstacles every 3 seconds (with higher speed it generates faster)
- it only happens if the player score is below a certain number.
- I set it so it runs once per loop
(If the above are all true)
-- Set randomObject value to random(0,1)
-- Create object at set coordinates
-- Set speed of object


Now this works perfectly with windwos exe, however on android sometimes it creates 2 objects at the same time (so basically it runs the globalValue 0 and globalValue 1 events at the same time)

Is there something different in how windwos and adndroid deals with the global values? How can I work around this problem?

Hope someone can help me in this And sorry if this a noobis question or if it has already been answered somewhere.

[Danny]

If you're using the built-in timer, ditch it. Create your own timer based on true frame ticks. So you would create a global value called 'delta', Always: Add 1 to Delta. If your game runs at 60fps and you want an update every 3 seconds, then when Global Value Delta => 180: Set Global Value Delta to 0. This will add 60 every second, so 180 would equal 3 seconds.

So rather than the condition being "Every 3 seconds" it would now be "Global Value Delta = 0", or you can MOD if you need to tailor it more.

[pcrono]

Thank you, I will try it when I get home and post how it worked out.

[pcrono]

Ok it fixed the problem. Thank you again for the quick help