GS clearing expressions when moving actors higher or lower in layer stack ( without changing layers)
machinegunkelly
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Hey guys, running into a little bit of a problem here, I'm finding rather annoying.
The other day I posted a question about the relevance of objects in the layer stack and their order... and I've been trying to keep certain objects in certain order, and now I've run into a new problem.
Let's say I have 10 objects in a layer, and my character is in the 10th position of this layer.
I move it up 5 positions ( within the same layer ) and GS clears all my expressions relating to that actor... and it's really starting to irritate me, any help, if I'm doing something wrong would be appreciated.
Again, I'm not moving the actors into different layers, just changing their order within ONE layer.
Thanks in advance.
The other day I posted a question about the relevance of objects in the layer stack and their order... and I've been trying to keep certain objects in certain order, and now I've run into a new problem.
Let's say I have 10 objects in a layer, and my character is in the 10th position of this layer.
I move it up 5 positions ( within the same layer ) and GS clears all my expressions relating to that actor... and it's really starting to irritate me, any help, if I'm doing something wrong would be appreciated.
Again, I'm not moving the actors into different layers, just changing their order within ONE layer.
Thanks in advance.
Answers
Hi @machinegunkelly
That's crazy, never heard of that happening before; don't understand what's going on there... even if you move an actor to another layer folder, it shouldn't clear expressions, attributes, etc. What version GSC are you using; also for Windows or Mac? And just to check, you're just moving the layer level of actors by dragging them in the Layers section?
It's doing it consistently, and I'm dragging them in the layers window yes.
It's driving me crazy, but so far the work around is to move the OTHER layers haha, time consuming but works for this instance.
I've been finding a few small bugs like this.
I also have a camera restraint, it is constrained to my players X postion+300
if I moved it UNDER the character, it would also constrain the y position LOL, and if I Moved it back on top, it'd work just fine.
I'm stripping my project now to see if I have something conflicting...
Glad you got a workaround, however frustrating... by the sound of it, there's just one actor that's got corrupted, or something.... don't know.... hopefully it'll clear itself... i'm wondering if this happens just in your current game file or all of them...
However,
I have 3 actors in my top level.
my Character
my Camera anchor ( to offset my character -300 from the center of the screen)
and a rule container, that contains the rules for the character, and constraint to the Camera anchor.
If I move the rule container from the top, my character becomes stays at whatever Y axis I stick him at, and won't jump etc... but if I stick that rule container on top of the layer stack, all seems to work as it should... truely bizzarre.
The clearing of expressions seems to have stopped, assuming though, that if I stuck those 30 actors back in that layer, that it'd return, I will test this tonight.
For now though, I've included an image..
http://innermindmedia.com/bug.png
Making JUSt that little change, I can render my game unplayable.