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I made my game with mostly a side scrolling background, but there is one sceen in there in which I would like the background to be still until the next level. I was wondering how do I temporarily stop the background from scrolling when the character is moving.

It seems like something simple, but I've tried everything (including making the character collide with borders that I made, etc), but I still couldn't do it. Anyway, thanks.

we might need more information on what your talking about here
is it scrolling as you walk by code? or is it just a repeated background?

have you tried using collision boxes to temporarily disable the scrolling?
or you could create a secondary background on top of your first one that gets destroyed once you get to the next level

just give some details, many of us would be glad to help

Yes, at first in my game, I have a repeated background in which my character walks by everything. That is, I used the steps that the tutorial that comes with the game gave us e.g. the x = x + 5; and the x = x – 5; codes, with the character being the parent of the view, etc).

But in one particular level, I don’t want the character to walk by a repeated background. I want one particular background to stays put, and I don’t want the character to be able to go past that background.

I was thinking to temporarily disable the character from being the parent of the view. But I don’t know how to do that (I’ve tried). I also tried putting walls around the particular scene so that the character can’t go past it (collision with a physical response), but for some reason that’s not working. Maybe I’m doing something wrong.

I hope this helps.

HE

if the background is parented with the view and thats what's moving it. then in draw actor for the bg have a variable called move and if move = 1 change the parent to view and if move = 0 change the parent to none
do you understand?

Make the stopped background another actor alltogether. Here I'll call them scrollbg and stopbg.

Give stopbg this line in it's CreateActor script:

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VisibilityState("Event Actor", DISABLE);

Now on any event you want, do this: (here i'll use collision with filled region)

player>collision>any side>filled region>repeat:no

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VisibilityState("scrollbg", DISABLE);
VisibilityState("stopbg, ENABLE);

And just reverse it when you want the scrolling background back.