actor viewable boolean doesnt work

as7494

I have my actor and when Im trying to change its viewable tag, nothing happens even when using the self.graphics.visible to set it to 0, i cant get it to disappear from my scene

JohnPapiomitis

You change self. color. alpha to zero if your trying to make it invisible

as7494

yes but then i would have to set the physics to 0 also correct?

JohnPapiomitis

no the physics has nothing to do with the color. IF you mean you want it destroyed then instead of changing the color change its position offscreen

simo103

I have a Try Again button I want to have show when a player fails to complete the level and wanted this to be touched to reset the scene. I used the Alpha set to zero to hide it and then to 1 to show and placed it in the middle of my scene. However that left a touchable yet transparent actor in the middle of my scene. So I had to wrap that touchable in a rule when alpha was 1.

I have since seen a discussion where overlapping actors like this can effect performance so I am looking at interlopating the image into and out of the scene from an off screen position which is what John said but wanted to add my narrative in case it was of value to you.

as7494

thanks a lot ill try that:)