R0J0hound - THAT'S IT!!! IT WORKED! The Mouse controls the Reticule PROPERLY!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! (I'm 41 but the kid me feels like the best thing just got handed to me.) I'm very grateful.

As always, I'm so appreciative of you both. GOD BLESS!

newt - Thank you! I did try using Lerp before but was still struggling...the results I was after I couldn't figure out.

R0J0hound actually seems to have solved it for me - a non-parallax 2D layer. That's like 90% exactly what I'm after (if not EXACTLY). I'm going to plug it into my setup and see if that solves the deal.

Thank you both!

newt R0J0hound dop2000

Tagging the three of you because you've been the most helpful in the past and I value your input. (And because if one of you is unable to answer, maybe the others can.)

Frederico C. from the Discord Ask-C3 channel offered me this solution - https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253490735268102144/972991293246562354/3dRetical.c3p. And that's very close to what I'm trying to do but with the greater flair of the 3D camera viewing angles you can see in my own project.

I tried to play around with the "Scroll layer" expression/action but I've never used it before so I'm guessing at what it actually does...

I'm sure that my issue here is a lack of understanding of just how C3 is "thinking" when it interprets the event lines I've written. I'm obviously wanting it to do one thing but because I don't "get" how C3 handles certain details, such as 3D Camera in conjunction with the Mouse against a 3D layer, I don't know how to remedy this.

I'll keep dinking around and hopefully I'll figure something out.

colonel Justice - Yeah, that's my conclusion, too. I reviewed both the manual and Ashley's tutorial entry on 3D and I'm of the mind that I just need to position my 3D camera above the layout as it originally starts. I'll have to test that out later...

Thanks!

dazedangels - Thank you, but that issue I got resolved as I noted in the EDIT portion of my post.

Aaaah. That's the thing that was missing. Thank you, Newt!

That's everything... I didn't know what would or wouldn't be relevant.

I opened up chrome://flags and enabled WebGL Draft Extensions as well as Choose ANGLE Graphics Backend...thinking these two things most related to the issue I'm having. The preview is still running close.

The following is what chrome://GPU says...

Graphics Feature Status

Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable

Compositing: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled

Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled

Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled

OpenGL: Disabled

Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled

Skia Renderer: Enabled

Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled

Vulkan: Disabled

WebGL: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable

WebGL2: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable

Problems Detected

Gpu compositing has been disabled, either via blocklist, about:flags or the command line. The browser will fall back to software compositing and hardware acceleration will be unavailable.

Disabled Features: gpu_compositing

Version Information

Data exported 2021-05-27T22:16:31.254Z

Chrome version Chrome/90.0.4430.212

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Log Messages

[15100:17960:0527/151622.410:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(426)] : Passthrough is not supported, GL is swiftshader

GpuProcessHost: The info collection GPU process exited normally. Everything is okay.

First, I understand that 3D Shapes are still new to C3 and there's a lot to work out. This may just be one of those situations where the 3D object needs to be further optimized. I don't know...

I have a small number of layers on a very, very basic demo I'm trying to put together. All layers have their Rendering Mode set to 2D except for the layer that has all the 3D objects which is, of course, set to 3D.

There are only three objects - my character, the instances of the 3D object, and blocks with the Solid behavior (to serve as platforms under the 3D object).

At first, things seemed to run fine. But when I started to add an extra layer I noticed that successive Preview plays resulted in very slow playback, I came up with a loss of how to resolve this problem.

I've closed the Preview window, I've restarted C3, I've also restarted my computer. I've checked Task Manager and the Preview window was definitely causing the most CPU demand but it never got above 50% total.

Can anyone help me figure this out, please?

C3 project file: drive.google.com/file/d/1bEjzueFLJ5FHme9x1VZsnlXhplKrrqAM/view

The stick figure is the main character and the arrow keys are using the basic Platformer behavior for movement.