z depth bug

[j2graves]

I'm trting to make a background that will follow the view, but if I make it a child actor of the main actor or the view actor, It gets the same z depth as the parent actor. so it ends up in front of everything. I tried to put the action "change z depth" on "draw actor" event, but even so, it stays in front of everything!
can someone please help me out here?

[Kalladdolf]

let me explain your bug first:
the child actor is ALWAYS in front of the parent actor, no matter what u do.
The best way to make the backround pic follow the player is to change the view's z depth to behind everything and make the view follow the player some other way .
there are many turtorials about that.
for example for the view goes:
draw actor->script editor->

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x=player.x;
y=player.y;


[j2graves]

Thanks. I'll try it out.

[j2graves]

Thank you! but I still have one more problem. how do you stop the background from shaking?

[j2graves]

I have another problem now, when my main actor lands on a moving platform, the background disappears. could this have anything to do with the "change parent" action I put on the "collision on top side of moving_platform" event?

[Kalladdolf]

if the backround image changes the parent to <none>, it automatically goes back to the position where it was createt.
why would you change it's parent, anyway?

[j2graves]

I changed the parent of the main actor to moving_platform. I did nothing to the background. It just did that on it's own. If you have any other way of getting the main actor to follow the moving platform when he's on top of it, could you please tell me?

[Kalladdolf]

Oh, that's what u mean!!!
could u post a ge file? (that sounds odd)

[DilloDude]

The child actror's x and y coordinates are relative to the parent actor. To fix this problem, use xscreen and yscreen (which are always relative to the view).

[j2graves]

What exactly do you mean by, "ge file"?

[j2graves]

do you mean a game editor file attachment?

[tufif]

Why not try just having it follow the view with a script?

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x = view.x;
y = view.y;


[j2graves]

You mean have it follow the view instead of the player? I tried that already, and the background was at the top left corner of the screen.

[DilloDude]

Wellk, then it would be

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x = view.x + 512;
y = view.y + 384;

That would be for 1024 by 768 resolution. Change the numbers to half the view's size.

[j2graves]

Thank you!how do I give you a point?