thanks Kyatric, I did look at that already, it will probably do what I need to do, but still not sure where that "Set Image Offset" setting is hiding...

Thanks though, gonna try and do it that way instead.

Does the animation itself last exactly 3 seconds? If so you can go into the animation 'edit' view and tweak some settings there.

1. From the layout view, double click your sprite

2. Select the animation itself from the list on the right on the right,

3. On the left side there will be some options. You can set it to 'loop' and set the 'repeat to' as the frame you want it to loop from.

Maybe this will solve it?

I'm trying to make a Tiled Background scroll to the left, and loop infinitely. I've searched the forums for a while and everyone keeps mentioning "Set Image Offset" but I can't seem to find that option anywhere. Has it been changed since the latest update?

Yeah I agree it'd be better if they were a tiled background, but I wanted to create a forest that was a physical challenge to get through...so its hard to walk through the trees.

See what I mean here:

http://media.enigma-hosting.co.uk/enigma/SnowmanGame/

I think I've pushed this as far as I can for now, so going to try a different approach altogether now...

Thanks a lot for the tips. That 'invert' feature seems useful.

So anything off-screen is automatically not used...thats interesting. I guess I need to come up with a different solution to my lag...

thanks again :)

Ooh thanks, I wasn't aware of that option. It hasn't solved my issue but its good to know its there!

I am now thinking I should set up some kind of boolean... so have the boolean set to true (visible) when on-screen, but set it to false at all other times...

Still struggling to figure it out without an 'off-screen' setting:

<img src="http://media.enigma-hosting.co.uk/enigma/SnowmanGame/forum-help/off-screen.jpg" border="0" />

'Inverse'? No, what is that?

I am trying to do something which seems simple, but for some reason isn't!

I simply want to know how to make a sprite invisible if it is off the screen. There is a 'on screen' setting, but not an 'off screen'. Any ideas?

Basically, I have a forest full of trees, all individual sprites. The game lags a lot though because there are hundreds of sprites. I simply want to try and make it so that all of the trees are invisible, unless the player is near them. That way, all the off-screen trees won't be using up memory...