Does emit count as a spawn?

[Deadly_Smile]

Whenever I emit something and message it using “Send to the last spawned object” the emitted object doesn’t receive the message. Does emit not count as spawn?

[Coofin]

No it doesn’t. I made a feature request for that recently.

[Deadly_Smile]

No… NOOO!!!

[Death68093]

if tbis is regarding the thing that where you need to send a msg to the last emitted object then all you have to do is either send a message to all of that type or a global to all objects and you send out the msg right before you emit & then the object you emitted wont turn the switch off but all of the others will go off. this is an extension of this post:

How to send message to last emitted object

You can send a message to Emitted objects once, right at the moment they are created. Just set the message to send to all objects of the emitted object type, then connect that message directly to the “out” of the Emit block. Next, inside the emitted object, have the mailbox connected to a switch that turns itself off (and connect whatever you want the message to do to that switch). This will allow the message to be sent to all of the emitted objects, but only the one that you just emitted will a…

[Deadly_Smile]

lol I made that topic

[Death68093]

ik. i just used his post so you knew more of what I was saying

[ManiacPumpkin]

I recommend using the spawn behavior instead of emitting, mostly because of this reason and the fact that you are kind of limited using emitted objects.

If you’re trying to make a bullet:
With spawn, you can just have it extract the players X and Y location or have it load up global behaviors with these values and use that to determine the location of the spawned object. Then when it’s spawned, you can give it a custom speed, direction etc, which can sometimes be hard to replicate using just emit.
To get it right, does take a bit to know, but once you figure it out, it definitely displays much better results.