Item Spawner

[havenphillip]

I have this item spawner script attached to a pivot but I want to figure out how to make the spawner wait to drop another item until the one it has already dropped has been picked up. How do I reference the spawned item?

 

Script.spawnrate = 3--float
Script.spawncount = 1--int 

Script.item ={}
Script.item[0]= "Prefabs/Ammo Prefabs/9 ammo Hover.pfb" --path
Script.item[1] = "Prefabs/Ammo Prefabs/Shotgun Shells  Hover(3).pfb" --path
Script.item[2]= "Prefabs/Ammo Prefabs/mp5 ammo Hover (4).pfb" --path
Script.item[3] = "Prefabs/Ammo Prefabs/Combat Rifle Hover (5).pfb" --path
Script.item[4]= "Prefabs/Health Kit/Health Kit.pfb" --path

function Script:Start()

    self.spawntime = Time:Millisecs()
    self.counter = 0
end

function Script:UpdateWorld()

        if Time:Millisecs() > self.spawntime + (self.spawnrate * 1000) then
            self.counter = self.counter + 1
            math.random(Time:GetCurrent())
            local rand = math.random(0,4)
            self:Spawn(rand)
            self.counter = 0 
        end
    --end

end

function Script:Spawn(rand)

    self.spawn = Prefab:Load(self.item[rand])
    local entpos = self.entity:GetPosition(true)
    self.spawn:SetPosition(self.entity:GetPosition())
    self.spawntime = Time:Millisecs()

end

 

[AggrorJorn]

The item you are spawning is stored in self.spawn. 

You could attach a script and check if a boolean has been set to this spawned item. You can than access it like this:

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self.spawn.script.pickedUp

Your If statement has to be extended as well. Something like

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if Time:Millisecs() > self.spawntime + (self.spawnrate * 1000) then

    if self.spawn ~= nil and self.spawn.script.pickedUp then

 

[havenphillip]

Ok so my item is a health kit. It has the "enabled" boolean. I tried your advice and added the line:

if self.spawn~= nil and self.spawn.script.enabled then

But now the spawner is doing nothing. Am I going to have to add a new boolean? I Here's my script (it's got the float up and down script in it from the workshop and it's a bit of a mess):
floating.lua

[AggrorJorn]

Your item script is fine, although I would set the enabled/pickedup boolean to false. Because now, everytime you spawn the entity, it is emmidiatly 'picked up'. I would also rename this boolean to 'pickedUp' or something similar. Calling it 'enabled' could mean anything.

I might have forgot the starting possibility. You want to spawn an item when:

A: there is no entity spawned yet.

B: an entity is spawned but not yet picked up.

 

Try this line instead of the previous one:

    if self.spawn == nil  or self.spawn.script.pickedUp then