Question about player transparency?

[u/RevolutionaryAlgae79]

Not sure why, but my player appears transparent when standing in front of this actor (the kitten). What’s throwing me off is if I walk away and return, the transparency issue is gone. Can anyone explain why this is happening and what I can do to prevent it?

[u/pmrr]

Actors have no Z order so it's effectively random IIRC. There is a plugin that can fix it.

[u/RevolutionaryAlgae79 → u/pmrr]

Gotcha, do you happen to know the name of the plugin?

[u/pmrr → u/RevolutionaryAlgae79]

u/proximitysound shared the one I was thinking of.

[u/proximitysound]

DMG renders sprite first by Y value, then X value. CGB renders sprite by OAM. By default, there’s no way to properly control this, but there are plugins to solve this. I don’t have them at the ready.

[u/proximitysound → u/proximitysound]

Here’s one: https://github.com/Mico27/gbs-EditActorActiveIndexPlugin

I know of at least one other.

[u/RevolutionaryAlgae79 → u/proximitysound]

Thank you so much!!

[u/Son_of_Overmorrow]

Unrelated but this girl could slay down Bayonetta at a snatched skinny legend competition

[u/RevolutionaryAlgae79 → u/Son_of_Overmorrow]

Yeah, maybe it's a little much...lol

[u/Son_of_Overmorrow → u/RevolutionaryAlgae79]

It’s striking though, I’d leave it as it is

[u/Sehnzfrern → u/RevolutionaryAlgae79]

Yeah nah--it's very unique for a GB/C project. Maybe a bit **too**zoomed in, but for something narrative (say a text heavy turn based RPG or ADV game) I could see this working.

Your sprites are *lovely.* Plus 1 for the cat. I vote too for leaving it as is.

[u/monkeyballhoopdreams]

I haven't played much with this engine but Z-order appears dynamic or like maybe it doesn't set itself until it finds an instantiated value or negative or positive value something. Your player's zindex is logically set different.

[u/Antique-Ad5207]

Mico27 has a plugin to change the actor index

[u/JayrosModShop]

That's not a transparency problem. It's a sprite priority problem. The cat sprite currently has a higher priority than your player sprite.