Generating playable objects

[eliasaif]

I'm trying to make a game where you first have a playable object, then if you press a button, a new playable object will be generated and the first object won't be playable anymore. Does anyone know how to do this generation?

[bartbes]

I have a very (very, very) bad implementation of this in netris. Basically I set an 'active' flag. But.. your question, what do you mean by "generation"?

[eliasaif]

Ok, what I mean with generation is that a new object (body) will be made when pushing a button.

[bartbes]

Okay, but that depends on the object you're trying to create. I had a few possibilities and just used math.random to decide which one to create.

[Robin]

I'm trying to make a game where you first have a playable object, then if you press a button, a new playable object will be generated and the first object won't be playable anymore. Does anyone know how to do this generation?

What exactly is your question?

How to generate the object? Exactly the same way you create all other objects.
How to have a different playable object? Bartbes answered that one already.

[eliasaif]

The question is how I can make new objects by pressing a button. I'm pretty new to this.

[Robin]

The question is how I can make new objects by pressing a button. I'm pretty new to this.

Alright. Well, there are a number of ways to do that, most of which involve tables. Do you have any code written for this game?

An example:
If you have "class" PlayerObject, and in load(), you called

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player = PlayerObject:new()

then, in keypressed(), you could do something like:

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oldplayer = player
player = PlayerObject:new()

But how you can do it greatly depends on the rest of the code.

[eliasaif]

Ok, i attached the code.

[Robin]

I made an example how it could be done. If you want to be able to make multiple new player objects, you might want to put the old player objects in a table, instead of this:

[eliasaif]

That's exactly what I meant! But how do I get the old objects to still have an image?