How to make the enemies spawn after? (Experts)

[buminzy]

How to make the enemies spawn after 8 seconds of the game starting, not right away?

 

[Smiechu]

Create a new object or add to one of your "general" objects ie. "obj_game" which governors the game.
There you make a simple counter...

If alarm[0] == -1
  {
  alarm[0] = 30
  global.counter += 1
  }

Then the spawning code of you're enemy embeed in if global.counter > 9

Of course course alarm must be set to you frame rate and global.counter must be given in create event with 0 value.

If you don't need the counter later on in the game you can add one more if global.counter < 10

 

[Fabseven]

You sure got an obj_system or something similar.
Set an alarm of your choice in the create event at room_speed*8
When the alarm is at zero you can create your mobs or activate them.

I think it's better to desactivate all monster at start end then active them so :

Create

alarm[0] = room_speed*8
instance_deactivate_object(obj_monster) //obj_monster = yours monsters (could be a parent obj)

In alarm0 event just add a commentary (if not the alarm will not decrease)

in Step event

if(alarm[0] == 0)
{
   alarm[0] = noone //so the alarm will not trigger with part of code again
   instance_activate_object(obj_monster)   
}

 

[buminzy]

I like that you Explain it @Fabseven but when I put your code, for some reason the enemies aren't spawning.

I really need this for my game if you could help me with this.

 

[buminzy]

And remember my enemies aren't build in coding. They are build in drag & drop. Check UP, and see how I made them

 

[Fabseven]

Coded it for real to test, working fine, here is the project : https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4x4h7n1bmSIUWpzUGVHeHNvX1k
Final result, after alarm is down :