A "What... How?" Problem.. Please help someone

[Hblade]

OMFG... Okay I have this code

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if (newgame == 2)
{
        ChangeZDepth("blackbg", 9.000000);
    blackbg.transp-=.02;
    musicvol-=.02;
    enable = 0;
    newcount++;
    menu = 0;
    if (newcount == 57)
    {
        MoveTo("view", 0.000000, 0.000000, 1000.000000, "viewer", "");
        DestroyActor("stars1");
        DestroyActor("stars2");
        new2 = 1;
    }
    if (new2 == 1)
    {
        blackbg.transp += .02;
    }
    if (newcount == 100)
    {
        newgame = 0;
    }
}


Now, shouldn't that mean that... blackbg should be in front of everything else. Well for some unknown reason it's not in front of 2 text actors and it's very annoying because the text actors you can see bouncing around the screen for about 2 frames because the view moved, but this is kind of annoying that I cant have it fade out to the text

Making simple effects is so hard...

[Rux]

Are the text actors parent to an actor that has a 9.1 or higher zdepth? If they have a parent, their z depths would be messed up.
(EXAMPLE: The text actors a parented to the view, which has, by default, a zdepth of 1)

[Hblade]

The text actors have no parrent's at all

[skydereign]

If the background is parented to the view, than the background actor will have the same zdepth as the view. So you would need to change the view's zdepth, not the background, or child actor. The parent will always have the lowest zdepth, and all child actors will have equal zdepth as the parent, but can have varying levels within the parent child zdepth... That might not have made sense, but pretty much change the view zdepth, and that should work, assuming you parented the background to the view.