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[adonf]

Hi,

I thought that free entities and actors lived in the main layer (as confirmed by this thread) but when I tried to play a video in the foreground it got hidden by a free entity.

Here's what I did: I created a foreground layer (same dimensions as main layer, not set as 'close-up' and placed after 'main' in the layer list) and placed an anchor region at the position the video should play. Then in the scene script I call

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var my_video = Scene.GetNode("video_region");
my_video.PlayTheora("scenes\video.ogg", 1);
The video is partly hidden by a free entity with a higher Y position (well, lower in space but higher in value).

Is there a way to ensure that something will always be in the foreground ?

Thanks,
  Olivier

[Mnemonic]

I'm not sure I fully understand the setup. What is "video_region"? If it's a sprite entity in the foreground layer, it should be always in the foreground and never obstructed by any free entity.

[adonf]

sorry if that was unclear: video_region is a region entity. I use its position to place the video in the scene editor and not in script. but even if i put an animated sprite at the same position the sprite is hidden by that free entity.

could it be because the free entity's hot spot is way below the bottom of the screen (and bellow the bottom of the layers too) ?

[Mnemonic]

could it be because the free entity's hot spot is way below the bottom of the screen (and bellow the bottom of the layers too) ?

I suppose the entity's hotspot is outside any scene region, is that right? If a free entity/actor isn't standing in any region, they are painted last. That's probably the problem here. The solution would be either expanding some scene region so that the free entity is always contained in it, or play the video in foreground layer instead.

[adonf]

ok, thanks for the answer

a lot of entity hotspots are placed below the screen because i only recently learnt about multiple layers and i didn't know how to put these objects on the foreground. well i guess i'll have to clean up my scenes and put all that stuff in the foreground layer

oh wait, what is a scene region, did you mean layers ? then i guess i could just make the main layer huge, but aren't there any drawbacks to doing this ?

[Mnemonic]

oh wait, what is a scene region, did you mean layers ? then i guess i could just make the main layer huge, but aren't there any drawbacks to doing this ?

No no, I mean the blue regions within scene layers. You can make them huge and offscreen, there's no penalty for doing that, but the free entities should always "stand" inside some region.

[adonf]

oh i see ! we didn't put any of these because we were using 3D walk planes and blocked regions.

edit: it's working. thanks for your help...