How do I stop these from spawning simultaneously?

ID:141735
 
Nov 26 2008, 3:59 pm
Code:
mob/proc
    Begin_wave()
        var/obj/Enemy/A = new()
        spawn(5) 
            A.Start()
        var/obj/Enemy/B = new()
        spawn(5) 
            B.Start()
        var/obj/Enemy/C = new()
        spawn(5) 
            C.Start()
        var/obj/Enemy/D = new()
        spawn(5) 
            D.Start()
        var/obj/Enemy/E = new()
        spawn(5) 
            E.Start()
        var/obj/Enemy/F = new()
        spawn(5) 
            F.Start()
        var/obj/Enemy/G = new()
        spawn(5) 
            G.Start()
        A.HP += 5 * src.wave
        B.HP += 5 * src.wave
        C.HP += 5 * src.wave
        D.HP += 5 * src.wave
        E.HP += 5 * src.wave
        F.HP += 5 * src.wave
        G.HP += 5 * src.wave
        src.wave += 1
obj/proc/Start()
    sleep(5)
    world<<"J"
    src.Move(locate(1,5,1))
    step(src,EAST)
    sleep(5)
    step(src,EAST)
    sleep(5)
    step(src,EAST)
    sleep(5)
    step(src,EAST)
    sleep(5)
    step(src,EAST)
    sleep(5)
        //... and on and on


Problem description:
I'm trying to make it smooth like. One spawns, one second later another spawns so it's a trail of them intead of one big glob of obj's. So why does spawn make them all move at the same time to the destination? I've even set it to send a message to see if more than one spawned, and all of them did. They were just all in one place.
Nov 26 2008, 4:33 pm
Maybe you should use sleep() instead of spawn().
Nov 26 2008, 4:34 pm
In response to Kaiochao
I tried that and got the same results
Nov 26 2008, 4:39 pm
In response to Choka
 
mob/proc
    Begin_wave()
        for(wave,wave<=7,wave++) //Creates 7 waves, 5 milliseconds apart.
            var/obj/Enemy/f=new
            f.Start()
            f.HP += 5*wave
            sleep(10)   //One second delay between loop iteration
obj/proc/Start()
    Move(locate(1,5,1))
    spawn   //Put the spawn in here or set background=1 to make this proc work in the background.
        while(1) //Infinite loop, apparently?
            step(src,EAST)
            sleep(5)

Loops make things less repetitive.
Nov 26 2008, 4:42 pm
In response to Kaiochao
Oh, for start there's more to it it's just a long path. (7 Easts,3 Norths,12 Easts)
Nov 26 2008, 4:44 pm
In response to Choka
 
for(var/easts=7,easts,easts--)
   step(src,EAST)
   sleep(5)
for(var/norths=3,norths,norths--)
   step(src,NORTH)
   sleep(5)
for(var/easts=12,easts,easts--)
   step(src,EAST)
   sleep(5)

Same concept, really.