newbie question - spawning new baddies in main loop

[marasmusine]

Hello everyone. I am new to ACD, I am slowly figuring things out, but will have a ton of questions.
First question! Maybe I'm not using Main Loop correctly.
I want baddies to regularly spawn.
I am using variable E to count them in.

In game initialization:

LET E = 100

Then in main loop 1:

SUBTRACT 1 FROM E   ; aliens

IF E = 0
  LET E = 100

  SPAWN 2 2

  SPAWNED

     X = RIGHTEDGE

     Y = 4

  ENDSPAWN

ENDIF here
However, nothing happens in the game.

If I put this code in the Player script, the baddies do appear.
However, when they spawn for a fraction of a second they appear on top of the player sprite before moving to the X Y position.

[marasmusine]

Am I right in saying that the following post by Johnathan explains why spawning doesn't work well in the main loop?

arcadegamedesigner.proboards.com/post/627

In which case, maybe I should have an invisible "baddy spawning" sprite already existing on the screen, and use this to control the appearance of new baddies?

[roolandoo]

Hello,
It does work if you do it this way, for example:
LET Y 4
LET X 50
SPAWN 2 2

Greetings.

[marasmusine]

Thanks roolandoo!