How do I Get Something to Fade in not out?

How do I Get Something to Fade in not out?

Just use the fade behavior

https://www.scirra.com/manual/95/fade

There is an event that when fade finish you can tell it to restart

I think if you set Fade Out to 0 and set the time for Fade In in the Fade behavior properties that would do the trick.

PhoenixNightly and Vallar: What you guys told me worked but not exactly the way I wanted it to. I am trying to let a transparent background fade in over the game so it looks like the game dimmed but when it fades in the object loses its transparency so it just covers up the game. I tried setting the opacity to like 50 and I changed the alpha of the color to 135 but it still fades in as a solid color.

Is this transparent background a Sprite Object or a layer with its Opacity turned on?

Either way you can set a variable to check if the BG should fade or not and if yes, add to its opacity a value multiplied by dt.

On the Sprite object it should look like this:

isFading---> set Sprite Opacity to self.Opacity + (a value) * dt

This will gradually add (a value) to the spite's opacity until it it reaches 100 (it' cant go any higher).

The same applies if the opacity values that you want to alter are on a opaque layer, the difference is that you'll get the layer's opacity actions on the system actions.

If you can clarify what is it that you want to fade I can make you an example capx...

eli0s The background is just a sprite

Ok, have a look at this example capx and tell me if this is what you're after.

http://www.eli0s.com/Tests/FadingSprite.capx

eli0s Thank you! Very helpful