Pin should (optionally?) take scaling into account

Hey all,

I'm running into some places in my game where having Pin be relative to scaling would be hugely helpful. Check out the attached capx to see what I mean.

In fact, this probably almost counts as a bug report, since I'd say this would be expected behaviour in a behaviour like Pin.

(And yes, I know that in this case it's trivial to do it manually, however my situation is a lot more complex!)

This would technically be a breaking change, so it might be best to make it an optional feature. In fact, in my specific case it would be awesome if we could toggle it on/off at runtime.

Anyone agree this would be useful?

+1 I've just realize that yesterday, trying to do a scale animation of a menu, which as a lot of pinned objs on it.

+1 Even though there's more calculations to be done this would be quite useful - ran into this recently as well. With a toggle it should be alright.

Yeah, this would be great. I'd like to add in that pin should also (perhaps also optionally) keep up with mirroring. Again, trivial to do manually, but would certainly help.

If you're looking for an object to sit on another's imagepoint (like the demo), then I would recommend using something from the master's repository: Rex's Pin to ImagePoint plugin.

OR.......just use events? In the meantime at least...Personally I never bothered with the pin behavior; pinned objects tend to shake when scrolling and you have no offset functionality.

Maybe I'm being stupid, but it'd also be good to have some sort of an option to "Pin to container" within the editor. I have so many little events in my project just to pin object A to container object B on created (mostly particles)

I disagree with all of this.

Pins and Containers should be removed and replaced with

Object SceneGraph [ http://archive.gamedev.net/archive/refe ... index.html ]

and

Prefabs [ http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Prefabs.html / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabrication ]

I cannot express how majestic scenegraphs are in regards to object relation and prefabs are to the convenience of complex game object duplication.

+1 for some kind of solution, whether Jay's or Squid's.

jayderyu sounds like a C3 suggestion.

Just discovered this problem on my project...

iw tryed with layer scale but it seems that layer scale is broken... :8

i just reported that bug.... https://www.scirra.com/forum/layer-scale-is-broken_t153679

anyone got solution how to properly scale pined object aswell and preserve its relative position?

help!!!

What would also be nice for the Pin Behavior is to follow the parent's Sprite relative position and orientation when the later is been mirrored. This is quite common when you mirror the Player sprite when going left. If you use the Pin to attach a gun for example, when the Player changes direction and you mirror the Player's Sprite, the gun stay on the right side, it doesn't reflect the mirroring event.

if you want scenegraphs, why not try godot <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

http://www.godotengine.org/projects/godot-engine