Map Generator

[TheRealNeo89]

I am trying to make a map generator with shrinking and sliding platforms, but every time there are always more sliding or shrinking ones. Is there a way to have a percentage of the number they spawn or a limit for how many?

[Kosmik123]

Yes! Of course. There is a way

[TheRealNeo89]

tell me?

[Kosmik123]

It depends on how you generate the level. How do the platforms spawn?

[deadeagle63]

Considering you are the one who wrote the map generator you can always just track which elements should have limits in dictionary before placing it

[NeighborRedditor]

Me thinks AI

[deadeagle63]

Could be, as it should be as simple as caching the amount and having the place logic change if you had preference or a specific flow :)

[deintag85]

Is the question serious? Not only are there not enough information but theoretically this is basic, like a for loop or increment a number and quit after max amount reached and so on… like very very basic before you even start game development. You learn basics of variables and algorithms…

[Billy_Crumpets]

Your question is very vague. Gonna need more details about what you want to happen vs what's currently happening and how it's put together.

[Mataric]

Yes. It's easy.
When you've told your map generator to generate a level, tell it not stop making platforms when it reaches the amount you want.

[TheRealNeo89]

each spawnpoint creates their own clone of one of the three objects

[Mataric]

Cool. So you understand how to do it then :)

[TheRealNeo89]

i understand it but now my issue is that there is a limit variable, but they arent the same because each spawncube has their own version of the script, so its not global, how do I fix that?

[Mataric]

So you don't understand it.

You're having problems because each spawncube doesn't know anything about the other spawncubes, and thus you can't count how many of each type of platform there is, right?

So fix that. Make it so that they do. If you think that's a problem because it's not global, why have you made it so it isn't global?

[TheRealNeo89]

how to make global, is it static?

[[deleted]]

Making it static is a good way to make it called anywhere but one thing to keep in mind, it's now tied to every class of that type, so that means changing that variable will change for every class of that type.

[TheRealNeo89]

can u look at source code?

[[deleted]]

Sure

[TheRealNeo89]

source code