is there any way to have a transparent screen for the pause menu

digitalzerodigitalzero Member, BASIC Posts: 639
in Working with GS (Mac)
im using the pause behavior and i have the middle of my image for the scene transparent but it just goes to black... is there any way to work this out?... i want to be able to still see the background of the play area

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  • digitalzerodigitalzero Member, BASIC Posts: 639
    without having every single actor having an attribute based off of a game attribute cause thats entirely too much work lol cause i have a lot of actors
  • LiquidGameworksLiquidGameworks Anchorage, AKMember, Sous Chef Posts: 956
    The black is the background scene color, not an overlying actor. So, lets say you put a 100X100 actor in the middle of your pause screen. When you hit pause, all you'll see is the center actor, overlying your original screen.
  • digitalzerodigitalzero Member, BASIC Posts: 639
    so then @liquidgameworks is there any way to make the background transparent for that pause scene?
  • DeadlySeriousMediaDeadlySeriousMedia ArizonaMember Posts: 838
    edited February 2013
    Add an actor over your entire your pause scene and set alpha to 50% or whatever you prefer.
  • SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
    edited February 2013
    so then @liquidgameworks is there any way to make the background transparent for that pause scene?
    If you had a transparent background the user could see inside your iPad, and you don't want that !

    ;)

    You need to place a panel of colour (a blank actor) in your pause scene and make it partially transparent - this is what would then appear over the scene you want to pause.
  • LiquidGameworksLiquidGameworks Anchorage, AKMember, Sous Chef Posts: 956
    edited February 2013
    @Socks Not my iPad, THEIR iPad :P
  • SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
    @Socks Not my iPad, THEIR iPad :P
    Good point ! Lol :)
  • digitalzerodigitalzero Member, BASIC Posts: 639
    so what rule would be placed in the actor then?
  • jamie_cjamie_c ImagineLabs.rocks Member, PRO Posts: 5,772
    no rule, in it's color settings make it's alpha something less than 1. For 50% transparent, make it .5.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    the pause scene is transparent to begin with. you don't need to add anything. Even though in the creator it looks black when it runs it will be transparent and you will see what ever scene it was that you pause right underneath anything you place in the pause scene.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    if its not transparent its because you have put something in there to make it not transparent.
  • SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
    the pause scene is transparent to begin with.
    Ah! Wasn't aware of that, good to know.
  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    Right, the only reason to add a background actor (other than to block the images currently on the originating scene) is to darken them by covering them with a black actor that is ~0.7 alpha so that you can see outlines but not words, etc.
  • digitalzerodigitalzero Member, BASIC Posts: 639
    when i was trying to do the pause screen transparent another time it wasnt transparent at all
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    Then you had put a background in the pause scene... Pause has always since day one of pause. been a transparent scene by default
  • LiquidGameworksLiquidGameworks Anchorage, AKMember, Sous Chef Posts: 956
    Create a new scene, and do a pause behavior to that screen. you won't even be able to tell its paused, except that everything stopped.
  • digitalzerodigitalzero Member, BASIC Posts: 639
    YOU GUYS... i think i just peed and cried at the same time! THANKS SO MUCH @liquidgameworks and @tenrdrmer
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