Entity creator help

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#1

Hi everyone, just wanna ask if its possible to spawn and delete entity by distance and not timer? been using this script for timer spawn and delete. thanks in advance

EntityCreator.prototype.update = function(dt) {

while (this.entities.length < this.maxCubes) {

    this.spawnCube();

}

// Loop through Entities and delete them when their time is up

for (i = 0; i < this.entities.length; i++) {

    this.entities[i].timer -= dt;

    if (this.entities[i].timer < 0) {

        // entity.destroy() deletes all components and removes Entity from the hierarchy

        this.entities[i].entity.destroy();

        // Remove from the local list

        this.entities.splice(i, 1);

    }

}

};

#2

Hi @Genesis_Miranda Yes you can use distance to determine when to delete an entity, if the distance is below a threshold, you can delete, some pseudocode:

let threshold = 1; 

var v1 = new pc.Vec3(5, 10, 20); // Cube 1 position
var v2 = new pc.Vec3(10, 20, 40); // Cube 2 position
var d = v1.distance(v2);
console.log("The distance between v1 and v2 is: " + d);

if(d < threshold) {
  this.entities[i].entity.destroy();
  this.entities.splice(i, 1);
}
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