Forcing a none type object to remain behind the player?

[DatKofGuy]

Hey guys, Im busy making a elevator level and I hit a bit of a snag.

As you can see in the pic, the gears and platform are always shown in front of the player, it is a none type and just has the idle animation of the gears spinning.
Is there a way to make sure its always behind the player?
Or is there a way to make animated background panels?

 

[kimono]

Hi, you need to change the player's spawn (lower his y coord) and this mechanic will be automatically on the back. If you have more difficulties, you can use setlayer function
(determine the layer 0, 1, 2... of the level).

 

[DatKofGuy]

Hmm... I'll have to do some math now.
Coz I spawn the gears at 240 272, since the image size is 480 272

And I spawn Terry at 165 235

So I'm guessing I should just change the gears offset?

 

[danno]

use set layer in the gears and platform entity header like this

setlayer {int}

~This entity will be displayed as if it were at z position {int}, regardless of it's actual position.

 

[DatKofGuy]

use set layer in the gears and platform entity header like this

setlayer {int}

~This entity will be displayed as if it were at z position {int}, regardless of it's actual position.

OK, and how do I know what value to give it? Or is it trial and error?

It worked, thanks!