R85/86 layer related bug

Hi, I have encountered an annoying bug.

When I add a new layer(2) and put a

background on it, bullets' runtime z-orders change

on layer(1). And when I set layer(2)

parallax and scale rates to 0, bullets

become invisible and some random bullets

start shooting from outside the layout, even

tho they have a "destroy outside layout

behavior"

I can still shoot enemies with invisible

bullets and when I hit enemy with invisible

bullet, the bullet that shoots outside the

layout disappears. So It seems bullets are

where they should be but they are drawn

elsewhere.

Changing layer properties shouldn't

interfere with other layers right?

I noticed this bug while using r85 but it

preserves after updating to r86.

If you need capx files, I can send them later.

Please see how to report bugs - we need a .capx file to be able to investigate this. It's best to provide a new project created from scratch, because if you send us your entire game with something going wrong in it, it could be you set up your events wrong, and I'm afraid we won't investigate problems with events in the Bugs forum (it takes too much time).

Right, lets add the essential things I forgot.

So, first everything should be fine.

When you set layer(0) to transparent and add new layer(2)and make it the lowest layer. At this point bullets runtime z orders change.

(you should make layer(2) have white background so you see things better).

When you set layer(2) parallax and scale rates to 0 bullets become invisible and so on (read the first post).

Problem occurs at least on opera and firefox. I tried r85 and r86, no difference. I'm running windows vista 32bit and I have the latest graphics drivers.

And here is the capx file: dl.dropbox.com/u/69516086/problem.capx

As far as I can tell there's no problem here, it's just your events are wrong.

If you say "Spawn bullet on layer 0" (providing a number to identify the layer), then add a new layer which you set to the bottom, that is now layer 0 (see the numbers to the right of the layers bar, those are the layer indices). If you give layer number 0 a different name, like "Layer 2", you will just confuse yourself - it's layer number 0!

Also note carefully each layer's transparent setting - you're putting a transparent layer beneath a non-transparent layer, which means you'll never be able to see the bottom layer.

Refer to layers by name instead of number and you'll always get the same layer no matter where you move it.

If you're still sure there's a bug, try making a new .capx from scratch. As it is it just looks like your project is set up wrong.

So if you send another layer to the bottom it becomes new layer 0? I didn't know that... Guess I have been quite lucky since I haven't had any problems with layers before. Good that this thing became clear now so I don't encounter problems in the future.

It was quite confusing when it's like:

Object [-]

Layer [-]

Image point [-]

then I just will Layer[0] since I have a layer named layer0...

But yeah, thanks for you time.