I am working on a puzzle mechanic which involves switching different actors to different "channels", or essentially wavelengths that determine what they interact with. For instance, a boosting tile on channel 3 would increase the potency of any tile that has an affect that is also connected to channel 3. Part of the puzzle would involve changing the channel different tiles are on, so they are affected by different sets of values.
For the sake of working as a puzzle, however, I would need these actors to start on specific channels. Since there could be duplicates of each actor, I'd have to use actor attributes for it, rather than game attributes.
There are two messy ways to do this that I know of; making a different version of every actor to match every possible starting value, but that would get very bloated very quickly. The other way would be to have an "assign channel" global attribute, and have the scene spawn each actor and then the actor change it's channel to match the assign one. But that has the problem that I would need to space them out at least .1 seconds apart to make sure every actor gets the right value, which could make the set-up of puzzles with a lot of actors take a perceivable amount of time to assemble which might annoy players.
Is there any way to have the game create an actor, and then more directly assign a specific value to one of it's actor attributes?
