Working with clones

Hey everyone! Working is going swell on my first game but I ran into a bit of a problem. I have created a way to spawn an actor directly on top of another. My game uses actors by having the player click on them and then they switch animations based on clicks. The problem I’ve run into is the fact that when I create clone son top of the actors, the click that initiated the clone also clicks the actor that spawns in. I’m using “if clicked on self” to intitiate the cloning but it seems that is also applying to the newly created actor that replaces the already clicked one. I can send multiple pictures if needed. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated

Created a boolean called Initialized.  On your click event, put "If <Initialized>" on top of everything. In an when created event, "do after 0.1 seconds, set Initialized to true." This should work.

Created a boolean called Initialized.  On your click event, put "If <Initialized>" on top of everything. In an when created event, "do after 0.1 seconds, set Initialized to true." This should work.

I tried this, and it fixed ge problem. But now instead of intitliazing after the first click, the actors are taking a click to “initialize” and then another to switch animations. It’s imperative that the actors switch upon one click. Any further help?

Post a screen shot of your code, that shouldn't be happening. You might have put the Initialized boolean in the wrong place.

Post a screen shot of your code, that shouldn't be happening. You might have put the Initialized boolean in the wrong place.

Sure thing, they're below.

These are my screen caps. I have multiple "skulls" that all behave the same way..."if mouse clicks this color then clicks self make clone of another color at your location". I'm guessing the problem comes where the mouse senses that the clone is also clicked, and when I click on another skull (for the first time without any other color clicked before) it results in that skull creating an unwanted skull.

Just from the screenshots, I think the problem might be with the attribute colorcode, because as far as I can tell, Initialized seems correct. You can check that by putting Initialized and the colorcode check in two different If blocks, on inside the other, and putting a print block after each If statement, to see where it stops after your first click:
If <Initialized>
-Print 1
-If <colodercode=N>
--Print 2

You could also reduce the time it takes to Initialize, from 0.1 to 0.01 or 0.02, but that would only make a difference if you are double-clicking and if Initialized is at fault.

When creating the clone, try creating it at x of self - 200 or something like that. This way the clone won’t appear directly on top of the original, but 200 pixels to its left. You can experiment with adding and subtracting the x and y positions of the actor to get it in the right position. That way, this shouldn’t cause this error.

Just from the screenshots, I think the problem might be with the attribute colorcode, because as far as I can tell, Initialized seems correct. You can check that by putting Initialized and the colorcode check in two different If blocks, on inside the other, and putting a print block after each If statement, to see where it stops after your first click:
If <Initialized>
-Print 1
-If <colodercode=N>
--Print 2

You could also reduce the time it takes to Initialize, from 0.1 to 0.01 or 0.02, but that would only make a difference if you are double-clicking and if Initialized is at fault.

I’ll try this when I get home. Thanks, I’ll let you know what happens!

When creating the clone, try creating it at x of self - 200 or something like that. This way the clone won’t appear directly on top of the original, but 200 pixels to its left. You can experiment with adding and subtracting the x and y positions of the actor to get it in the right position. That way, this shouldn’t cause this error.

This would work perfectly, only I need a skull which is clicked to seem like it is changing colors, thus the clone has to appear in the same exact location.