Position 1 object with another object but offset 2nd

I have a boss ship that moves left then after say 10 HPs moves back right and a shield object comes up. I can get the shield obj to come up fine and move with original obj with "set position to (boss1.x, boss1.y)."

But with the above command the the boss and sheild just do not line up like i want(because they are different sizes and whatnot) and so I am trying to shift the shield by add/minus x/y as needed but to me it does not appear to be working.

would you guys/gals use set position to (boss1.x, boss1.y+100) to shift the shield obj down 100 pixels from the center point of the boss1 obj? Or am I not understanding something?

Thanks,

Rich

Is the shield pinned to the boss? If not then you'll need to make sure the boss1.y+100 part happens every tick.

Your solution works fine. If done every tick. If there is only 1 shield and 1 boss.

Other suggestions. (that work fine too)

Use imagepoints on the boss.

https://www.scirra.com/manual/63/image-points

Position the shield on an imagepoint

Then keep it there by ..

or position it every tick to an imagepoint

or use Pin behavior

https://www.scirra.com/manual/99/pin

Thanks for the suggestions. I havent messed with since Friday but will look at again today. The shield moves fine with the boss fine...but I just could not get it where I wanted it to be right of the bat so it just looks weird, to me. I'll try imagepoints as well.

Ah yes the image point movement worked best for this. Thanks!