Overlapping Actives in different layers

[danworth]

Event - Active Overlapping Active2 = Active - Set direction "Down"
Event - (Negate) Active Overlapping Active 2 = Active - Set direction "right"

All works fine when on the same layer but when active is on layer 1 and active2 is on layer 2 it doesn't work. even if i replace the overlapping event with

If X Position of Active = X Position of Active2
If Y Position of Active = Y Position of Active2

is there a way of getting it working. am i missing some thing simple?

thanks.

[danworth]

Event - Active Overlapping Active2 = Active - Set direction "Down"
Event - (Negate) Active Overlapping Active 2 = Active - Set direction "right"

All works fine when on the same layer but when active is on layer 1 and active2 is on layer 2 it doesn't work. even if i replace the overlapping event with

If X Position of Active = X Position of Active2
If Y Position of Active = Y Position of Active2

is there a way of getting it working. am i missing some thing simple?

thanks.

[DavidN]

Objects don't interact with each other unless they're on the same layer. You could create another object on the second layer, fix that to the position of the first-layer object and test for collisions using that.

[DavidN]

Objects don't interact with each other unless they're on the same layer. You could create another object on the second layer, fix that to the position of the first-layer object and test for collisions using that.

[danworth]

but wouldn't that achieve the same as comparing the Active and Active2 X and Y positions?

[danworth]

but wouldn't that achieve the same as comparing the Active and Active2 X and Y positions?