question about left to right sprites

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   Hello all,

I am new to construct 2, but I love it. I have a small problem. I want to make a freeway clone. Freeway was an atari 2600 game from the eighties.
A chicken had to make it from the bottom of the screen to the top while avoiding cars. The problem I am haveing is I dont know how to make the cars come from left to right from off the screen and then keep coming in their line of traffic. I have all the sprites the background, this is the only issue i cannot figure out. I know if i could get one car to work, I could just clone it to other parts of the screen. Anyone have any idea's.

thanks in advance,
bj

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cybersmudge 416 Rep 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote cybersmudge Report Post Quote Reply Topic: question about left to right sprites Posted: 06 Mar 2012 at 5:11pm
	Hello all, I am new to construct 2, but I love it. I have a small problem. I want to make a freeway clone. Freeway was an atari 2600 game from the eighties. A chicken had to make it from the bottom of the screen to the top while avoiding cars. The problem I am haveing is I dont know how to make the cars come from left to right from off the screen and then keep coming in their line of traffic. I have all the sprites the background, this is the only issue i cannot figure out. I know if i could get one car to work, I could just clone it to other parts of the screen. Anyone have any idea's. thanks in advance, bj

Cassianno 1,008 Rep 1 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote Cassianno Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 06 Mar 2012 at 5:13pm
	Spawn a car from time to time and make the car have the BULLET behaviour. By setting it's angle (0 -> and 180 <-) they will move.

shinkan 9,130 Rep 9 17 45	Post Options Post Reply Quote shinkan Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 06 Mar 2012 at 7:52pm
	or car: Set X to self.X+adt a in this case is amount of pixels per second if you set car: Set X to self.X+100dt - car will move 100 pixels per second

cybersmudge 416 Rep 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote cybersmudge Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 07 Mar 2012 at 2:23am
	Thanks for all the help, but I admit I still dont understand. I want say 7 cars that scroll vertical across the screen at random times, but I also want them coming at random from left and right also. So there is 7 lanes of traffic the car sprites only travel vertical in their lane, but I want them at random times and random player not knowing if they are coming from left or right.

7Soul 6,516 Rep 5 7 43	Post Options Post Reply Quote 7Soul Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 07 Mar 2012 at 7:08am
	Maybe this: --- Global "random" Every tick: set random to rand(20) Compare values: tickcount%5 = random -> Create "Car" at ((rand(3)%2) * 100, rand(6)10) --- I guess this is a simple way of randomizing time... if you change rand(20) to something higher, it will be less likely to happen (rand(3)%2) 100 will create the car either at left or right rand(6)*10 is to create the car randomly at 7 different Y positions with 10 pixels between them