I have a (probably unnecessary) sliding movement for my character portraits and dialogue box as they fade onto the screen. This is done using path movement, though I knew it'd give me issues before hand.
Here's an example of what happens when the player quickly activates and deactivates it in-game:
I tried moving it's X position instead (and trying to forbid movement past so many pixels left of the frame) but it didn't work, and moved too fast. It's currently activated when you're overlapping an NPC detector. A Flag turns on/off depending on whether you're overlapping the NPC detector, then starts the movement and adjusts the fade.
It's an unnecessary effect, but it just gives it a bit more life. Can you think of any better way of getting this working securely?
I originally thought your error was regarding the text being overlapped with the brick-like background. Then I laughed out loud when I saw the player-character's portrait slowly inching across the screen...!
Is there a key-press (like UP ARROW or UP on the joypad) that can trigger this effect instead? You may be able to reset things to their starting positions a little easier if you do that.
Have you moved the portrait to an upper/foreground layer? You may be able to keep one layer independent of the other, and lock that layer to the window position instead of the position in the game frame - like following the position of the camera object/player instead.
Not sure if I'm making sense here...but see if any of it resonates. Good luck solving this!
I like the effect. It looks like you just need to reset its position when it's activated. Possibly with an "Only one time while event loops" condition.
One other thing to try is to check if the NPC detector is overlapping the player object; if not, it sets the portrait position to the start point.
If that doesn't work, try checking for the flag to be tripped. If it seems jerky when the portrait disappears, have the portrait disappear/fade out quicker on the transition.
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