AreaSpawner

Inherits: Area2D < CollisionObject2D < Node2D < CanvasItem < Node < Object

Spawns Scene as siblings continously in intervals with the option to have multiple spawns in the run. The scene is spawned in a random location inside any of the CollisionShape2D children.

Warning: If any CollisionShape2D is not a RectangleShape2D, it will be ignored.

Properties

Array[Node]	all_children	get_children()
Array[PackedScene]	Scenes
bool	autostart	false
float	Rate	0.5
int	Initial_Spawns	10
float	time_counter
bool	spawning	false

Methods

void	_ready()
void	_physics_process(delta: float)
void	begin()
void	end()
void	spawn()

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Property Descriptions

Array[Node] all_children = get_children() 🔗

Lists all children at runtime. Only these will be used used to determine location. You should manually refresh this if you want to dynamically generate any CollisionShape2D.

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Array[PackedScene] Scenes 🔗

The scenes to spawn. A Random scene will be picked from here to be spawned.

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bool autostart = false 🔗

When set to true, it will automatically begin spawning as soon as it enters the tree.

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float Rate = 0.5 🔗

Scenes spawned per Second.

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int Initial_Spawns = 10 🔗

Number of scenes spawned at the very first run.

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float time_counter 🔗

The time passed since the last spawn.

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bool spawning = false 🔗

A boolean to turn spawning on and off.

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Method Descriptions

void _ready() 🔗

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void _physics_process(delta: float) 🔗

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void begin() 🔗

Start spawning.

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void end() 🔗

Stop spawning and self-destruct. To pause spawning, simply set spawning to false.

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void spawn() 🔗

The spawn function, use this to randomly spawn a scene from the Scenes array.