AS2 spawning a movieclip on a lower depth

[Parakon]

I've had this problem for a while, everytime I try to spawn a piss puddle on the floor from the player, it spawns above everything, and the player can walk under it, which isn't cool.

    puddle = _root.attachMovie("piss", p+pisspuddles++, 0);
    p += 1;
    puddle._y = _root.player._y;
    puddle._x = _root.player._x;
    pisspuddles = 0;

this will solve a lot of my problems so any help is awesome.

[Geel]

[QUOTE=Parakon;22271498]I've had this problem for a while, everytime I try to spawn a piss puddle on the floor from the player, it spawns above everything, and the player can walk under it, which isn't cool.

    puddle = _root.attachMovie("piss", p+pisspuddles++, 0);
    p += 1;
    puddle._y = _root.player._y;
    puddle._x = _root.player._x;
    pisspuddles = 0;

this will solve a lot of my problems so any help is awesome.[/QUOTE]

Odd...You can, when it's created, do swapDepth on the piss puddle and the player.

[Parakon]

I tried that with "puddle.onEnterFrame = swapDepth(_root.player);"

but no dice

[Geel]

Try tracing the puddle's depth, then the player's depth. That kind of thing has helped me a LOT.

[editline]03:32AM[/editline]

Actually, I don't think you can even access the depth property, can you?

[1/4 Life]

[QUOTE=geel9;22271657]Try tracing the puddle's depth, then the player's depth. That kind of thing has helped me a LOT.

[editline]03:32AM[/editline]

Actually, I don't think you can even access the depth property, can you?[/QUOTE]

mc.getDepth();
mc.swapDepths( mc_2 );
mc.swapDepths( depth value ); [I](Basically a 'setDepth')[/I]

[Geel]

[QUOTE=1/4 Life;22271673]mc.getDepth();[/QUOTE]

Oh damn, that would have helped so many times during development of MY game.

[1/4 Life]

You might want to play with mc.getNextHighestDepth();

For instance:
piss_mc.swapDepths( mc_under_player.getNextHighestDepth() );

[Geel]

[QUOTE=1/4 Life;22271772]You might want to play with mc.getNextHighestDepth();[/QUOTE]

He wants a low depth, not the highest.

[editline]03:42AM[/editline]

DAmn ninjas.

[Parakon]

    puddle = _root.attachMovie("piss", p+pisspuddles++, holder.getNextHighestDepth());
    puddle.onEnterFrame = swappy;
    p += 1;
    puddle._y = _root.player._y;
    puddle._x = _root.player._x;
    pisspuddles = 0;
        }
        function swappy():Void {
_root.player.getDepth();
_root.player.swapDepth(this)
_root.player.swapDepth(0);}

Here's how I've got it now, same result though, i must be doing it wrong

[1/4 Life]

[QUOTE=Parakon;22271832]

    puddle = _root.attachMovie("piss", p+pisspuddles++, holder.getNextHighestDepth());
    puddle.onEnterFrame = swappy;
    p += 1;
    puddle._y = _root.player._y;
    puddle._x = _root.player._x;
    pisspuddles = 0;
        }
        function swappy():Void {
_root.player.getDepth();
_root.player.swapDepth(this)
_root.player.swapDepth(0);}

Here's how I've got it now, same result though, i must be doing it wrong[/QUOTE]

Should be swapDepths, not swapDepth.

Everything else looks good.

[Parakon]

I was wondering why it wasn't blue.. Anyways, it works great! except now the player goes ontop of everything else, which sucks, any ideas?

[1/4 Life]

[QUOTE=Parakon;22271977]I was wondering why it wasn't blue.. Anyways, it works great! except now the player goes ontop of everything else, which sucks, any ideas?[/QUOTE]

You can try something like this.

pisspuddle.swapDepths( player.getNextHighestDepth() )
player.swapDepths( pisspuddle );

That should get them directly on top of each other depth wise, and correctly place the player above the puddle.

[Parakon]

I just put an MC on a frame just above the floor, but below the player, and swapped that with the piss instead, it works, if I run into any problems i'll post here, otherwise you guys have been a gigantic help, in this game and in future ones

[img]http://i46.tinypic.com/107ufzo.png[/img]

the fruit of your helpfulness.

[1/4 Life]

[QUOTE=Parakon;22272101]I just put an MC on a frame just above the floor, but below the player, and swapped that with the piss instead, it works, if I run into any problems i'll post here, otherwise you guys have been a gigantic help, in this game and in future ones

the fruit of your helpfulness.[/QUOTE]

Looks great! Glad to help!