Making background stay put?

allc1865allc1865 Member, PRO Posts: 777
in Working with GS (Mac)
Hi. I want my background to stay put, even when my character jumps at a high point, the background is still in the same position. Any help would be great! Thanks!

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  • -Timo--Timo- Posts: 2,313
    Accepted Answer
    you need 2 layers.
    1 layer is scrollable (check the square) and 1 is not scrollable (uncheck the square)
    the not scrollable should be under the scrollable layer.
    place the background in the not scrollable layer and all the other actors in the scrollable layer.
    if this is not working maybe post an image of what you have
  • -Timo--Timo- Posts: 2,313
    edited October 2013 Accepted Answer
    I am glad its working :)

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  • Braydon_SFXBraydon_SFX Member, Sous Chef, Bowlboy Sidekick Posts: 9,273
    Place it in a new layer and uncheck scrollable. That should do it.
  • allc1865allc1865 Member, PRO Posts: 777
    I tried that, but now my background is on top of everything.
  • -Timo--Timo- Member Posts: 2,313
    then place the layer with background under all other layers ;)
  • allc1865allc1865 Member, PRO Posts: 777
    Ok. So I have two layer 'folders', if you will, one called background, the other called HUD.
    The HUD has my arrows and such in there, which makes it non scrollable. If I place my background in the layer 'folder', it goes on top of everything, no matter where I place it, even under my background layer which I believe you were talking about, @timolapre1998.
  • allc1865allc1865 Member, PRO Posts: 777
    If I place my background in HUD, that is.
  • -Timo--Timo- Member Posts: 2,313
    just make sure you place the actor 'background' under all the other actors. you also can do right click on background and move to back
  • allc1865allc1865 Member, PRO Posts: 777
    Okay. I tried what you said. My background is behind my character, but it still, though, moves...
    When I place it in the HUD (which is where all my non movable characters go), right click > move back > my character doesn't show up in front of my background, and I did right click on my character > move forward.
    Thanks for the quick replies!
  • allc1865allc1865 Member, PRO Posts: 777
    Do you have a template on this, @timolapre1998?
  • allc1865allc1865 Member, PRO Posts: 777
    Yep. That worked, but now the grass is hiding my controls.
    I'm not sure how to let you see a screenshot, but this is pretty much what it looks like:

    background (in background): my character, ground
    --underneath background--
    HUD (in HUD): right control, left control, background

    And like I wrote, the ground is now hiding my controls.

    Thanks!
  • -Timo--Timo- Member Posts: 2,313
    you have to take a screenshot and then place it on internet tinypic.com or imageshack.com or something. and then post the direct link like this <@img src="your link'> without @ and "your link" is the direct link of the image.

    make 3 layers.

    layer1 controls ->not scrollable
    --right control
    --left control

    layer2 HUD -> scrollable
    --character
    --ground
    --etc

    layer3 background -> scrollable
    --background

    that should work ;)
  • allc1865allc1865 Member, PRO Posts: 777
    Okay. I tried what you said and that didn't work...
    [IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/20z3a7n.png[/IMG]
    Hope you can see it. Here's what I 'had'.
  • -Timo--Timo- Member Posts: 2,313
    edited October 2013
    I can see it when clicking on the link ;) this is not the direct link and you should post it lik this
    <@img src="link"> without @ and "link" is direct link
    direct link: http://oi40.tinypic.com/20z3a7n.jpg
    so its image

    then you did something wrong. can you post an image of what you have now?
    what is the background? is Sun Rays the background image?
  • allc1865allc1865 Member, PRO Posts: 777
    It works! I put my ground in the HUD area above my background layers and it works!
    Thank you so much for your help! :)
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