[SOLVED]Parenting Issue

[DragonRift]

Hello guys, I am trying to parent a thruster animation that needs to go in behind my actor but when I parent it, it goes over top of the actor.
I have tried changing its Zdepth but its not changing while parented, does anyone have a suggestion to fix this?

[Hblade]

This is because when you parent something, it has the zdepth + the parents Z. The best way to do this would be to have a box do the moving, an invisible box (maybe a filled region or wireframe ) and parent your player to the box, and instead of moving players X and Y move the boxe's, and then parent the thruster to that box, but make the players Z higher.

[DragonRift]

Ok, I did that but now my actor is not changing the animation on keypress.

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char *key=GetKeyState();
int dir=key[KEY_RIGHT]-key[KEY_LEFT];
switch(dir)
  {
  //case 0: //None or Both
        //ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "Player_Left", NO_CHANGE);
  //break;
 
  case -1: //Left
        x-=5;
        ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "Player_Left", NO_CHANGE);
        break;
 
  case 1: //Right
        x+=5;
        ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "Player_Right", NO_CHANGE);
  break;
}

[DragonRift]

I just noticed that when I fixed this, it unloaded my animations, problem is solved.

Another question is how do I do Up/Down?

Sorry, I am new to programming.

[Hblade]

instead of X to Y

y+=5 = down by 5 pixels
y-=5 = up by 5 pixels

[DragonRift]

My first script, I am so proud.

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char *key=GetKeyState();
int dir=key[KEY_RIGHT]-key[KEY_LEFT];
int fly=key[KEY_UP]-key[KEY_DOWN];

switch(dir)
  {
  case 0: //None or Both
        ChangeAnimation("Hover", "magneto_hover5x1_normal", NO_CHANGE);
  break;
 
  case -1: //Left
        x-=5;
        ChangeAnimation("Ship", "Concord_Left", NO_CHANGE);
        break;
 
  case 1: //Right
        x+=5;
        ChangeAnimation("Ship", "Concord_Right", NO_CHANGE);
  break;
}


switch(fly)
  {
  case 0: //None or Both
        ChangeAnimation("Hover", "magneto_hover5x1_normal", NO_CHANGE);
  break;
 
  case -1: //Down
        y+=3;
        ChangeAnimation("Hover", "magneto_hover5x1_weak", NO_CHANGE);
        break;
 
  case 1: //Up
        y-=2;
        ChangeAnimation("Hover", "magneto_hover5x1_strong", NO_CHANGE);
  break;
}

[Hblade]

Looks amazing for first script!

[DragonRift]

I have this Thruster Animation that I want coming out the back of my ship when the key is pressed but I have to create this by code and have it in position and parented to the player. Any suggestions?

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switch(dir)
  {
  case 0: //None or Both
        ChangeAnimation("Hover", "magneto_hover5x1_normal", NO_CHANGE);
  break;
 
  case -1: //Left
        x-=5;
        ChangeAnimation("Ship", "Concord_Left", NO_CHANGE);
        //thruster animation here
        break;
 
  case 1: //Right
        x+=5;
        ChangeAnimation("Ship", "Concord_Right", NO_CHANGE);
        //thruster animation here
  break;
}

magneto_thruster1x5_magenta_thin_left.png
magneto_thruster1x5_magenta_thin_right.png

[Hblade]

Not sure, should be working

[DragonRift]

Not sure, should be working

Sorry, I already solved the issue, I was defining the variables as local variables instead of global variables which was causing an actor replication issue.

[Hblade]

Ahh ok