new block -- "layer"

[TNG]

Like with “x pos” and “y pos” in the motion category, you should also do the same with layering since you don’t know what layer what block is.

[c.]

@the_true_odst Please clarify.

[TNG]

@c,
basically a button like this but it shows the layer of the selected sprite:

[info-creaticode]

@the_true_odst

Keep in mind that the layers are relative, and there is no concept of “layer 0”, “layer 1”. What do you expect the value of this new block to be?

[TNG]

@info-creaticode Well, I’m not exactly sure, but it should behave like the x pos/ y pos block. The “go forward/backward 1 layer” can be really confusing if there are a lot of sprites and your don’t know what their layering position is.

[jeffreyrb03-gmail]

@info-creaticode Looks like it’d be a reporter block called “layer” and in the Looks category near here:

For what it should return as its value, it’d be a number that is how many layers away it is from the back/very first layer. For instance, if I have a project with only 2 sprites, and in the first sprite, I run

go foward 5 layers
say layer

then in the second sprite i run

go foward 10 layers
say layer

then the layer var on them should return 5 and 10.

Even if the layers are relative, the backdrop can and commonly is used as the 0th layer, which is what the layer block would use as its reference layer.

[info-creaticode]

@the_true_odst

That’s true. It can be hard to use when there are many different layers.

How about 2 new blocks?

1. go to layer [LAYER]: LAYER can be any number between 0 and 100

2. my layer: a reporter block for current layer

[TNG]

@info-creaticode That sounds good!