Pasting into background/add backdrop - limit?

[Livingstone]

I have an object that leaves a trail by 'Always' creating an active duplicate at its coordinates and have that duplicate active 'add backdrop' and then destroying the duplicate object. The problem is after a short while the trail stops being pasted. The same issue occurs when I try 'Paste to background' instead. If I make 'Always' timer-based (e.g. Every 0.008 seconds) then it of course takes longer, but the trail will still eventually stop being produced.

Is there a limit on the paste into background function, or perhaps the 'Create' event?

P.S. The duplicate object is definitely being destroyed so I don't think I'm hitting an Active object limit. I was under the impression that MMF2 treated the backdrops as one large image?

I'm using the latest build of HWA.

[LB]

Could you post an example of this?

[Pixelthief]

Backdrops will have the same object limit as your active object limit, but not from the same counter. There is a separate, "invisible" counter for backgrounds, initialized and maxed at the frame property's value for active object limit.


So you might have 300 objects in a 300 object max, but you'll still be able to generate 300 backdrops. Once that limit of 300 backdrops is hit, you cannot make new ones.

[DavidN]

Yes, MMF2 treats the backgrounds on frame 1 as one large image in a collision mask that's generated before the game is run, but additional backdrops are treated as individual objects. Try raising your "Maximum objects at runtime" number in the Frame Properties.