For the title screen of my new game I want to have a space background with starts and comets flying across the screen in the background. The best way I can think of doing this is to have an active object going up and down outside the screen and every few seconds it shoots a star. I would have like 4 or 5 of em shooting em' every few seconds and in different positions so there are multiple starts in different sizes. Is there a better way to do this? There has to be. This is just asinine.
I used to do something similar to that when I first made games. Yes, there is a better way.
Always > Create object at some random position outside the playfield. (preferably one already to the right of the screen) For instance, (650, 240).
Value A of Projectile = 0 > Set Y position to Random(480) + Set Value A to 1. (Where 480 is the Playfield height)
Then you can either always set the X position to its current position minus 1 or 2 or however many you want, or just set it to a bouncing ball that always moves left.
If you don't want that many, you can create them based off of a timer or counter setup instead of an always condition. For different sizes you can just add another event in the second condition above to set the scale to Random(10)/10 OR just draw separate sizes as animations and change the animation to a random one. You could take it a step further and set the speeds to be Random(50) + 50 or something similar. Tell me if I need to clarify anything.
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Edited by OMC
um... I need clarifying.
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