Too many players being spawned.

Hi.

So, I got my checkpoints to work properly after a while of fiddling around. However, after dying and respawning several times, the game begins to lag a lot. I believe that this is because I am spawning more than one player every time. Does anyone know how to help? I am attaching the screenshot of my code.

The when actor is killed block should only trigger once, so you shouldn't get more than one actor spawned.

Try clicking the log viewer and see if you have any null errors etc happening in the background.

Hi,

First, thanks for the response!

I've messed around with it a bit, and it only starts spawning more players if there is more than one checkpoint in the scene.

I did not find any errors in the log viewer.

Maybe each checkpoint is spawning a player? If there are only two checkpoints the lag does not come as quickly as three checkpoints.

ah yes, if the spawn code is attached to the checkpoint then the could all be spewing actors. Although, how many actors do you have on the scene? It should take quite a few before things start lagging?

Actor in the actual meaning of the word, I have 5 not counting checkpoints. 2 are invisible things that prevent getting all your powerups by dying.

Actor by meaning player, I only have one.

I think I need to code it so that only one checkpoint will spawn them, but I have no clue how to start...

that shouldn't be causing lag, you should be able to have like 60-100 actors on the screen before lag happens. If you want to send me the game file I could have a quick look through to see if anything obvious is causing it.

in terms of the checkpoints, do you hit them in order or is there a possibility to return to a previous checkpoint?

Since it is supposed to be a large Metroidvania game, you can go back to checkpoints several times.

I just realized that there is only one checkpoint in this file, I can send another with more if you don't find anything.

All of your checkpoints are spawning actors when you die, so you quickly end up with dozens of actors. As all of these are registering collisions, than why the game slows down so quickly.

Yeah, I realized that I had messed around a bit before I sent the game, and didn't put it back to normal. There are three checkpoints, but not working right.

Basically, the same thing is happening, but all the players are being spawned at the EXACT same place.

If I attached the spawning code to the player, would that help?

You could approach it like this:

When a player hits a checkpoint you record the X and Y values of the player in that position.
When the player dies, don't kill the actor, but instead move it back to the last X Y value recorded.

I just redid the code a bit and it works well now. Thanks a lot for your help guys! Much appreciated!