Menu Elements Never in Correct Order?
Hey all!
New poster here!
I'm also new to game making + coding. I'm very grateful to this forum + the manual as I've been able to solve any problems I've hit in AC until now!
Which feels a little silly because what I want is simple: I want the name tag of my character to go on top of their dialogue portrait. I've dug through relevant forum posts, I've read through the manual, and it SEEMS like I'm doing this correctly? But no matter what I do, the portrait sits on top of the name tag.
Here are some images of my settings + the issue for reference: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cuzc21PZsQwvLuJTMyiIU5JcEcDI-QSM?usp=drive_link
I have the menu source set to AC, I have the elements ordered correctly...is there something obvious I'm missing?
Any guidance would be appreciated!
-K
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Welcome to the community, @kddaawwggg.
When the Source is set to AC, elements will be drawn in the order they're listed, so NameTag will need to be moved to the bottom of the elements list for it to be drawn on top of Portrait.
This ordering rule also applies to Menus themselves - the Menu listed last in the Manager's stack will be drawn on top of all others.
If moving NameTag down (which can be done from the cog menu to the right) doesn't solve it, check that there isn't another Menu that's rendering the same portrait graphic.
Separately: I see the NameTag element has the character's name embedded in the texture directly. If your game has many characters, you may want to later split this into a blank backgrond texture, and Label element that shows the name of the character dynamically.
Hey @ChrisIceBox!
Wow, that did it haha. I feel very silly!! What an easy fix. This is great to know also re: the ordering of menus vs the ordering of menu elements. I've definitely had this problem before, but I managed some workarounds that just didn't make sense for this specific problem.
And yes! The tags right now are temp art, so I'm not being too precious right this moment, but my plan is to do that once the final art is made (: Thanks for mentioning it!
And thank you again! It's a great template. I moved from AGS to AC and this has been so intuitive for me. You've done a great job!