Anchor to Screen without the actor being on the top layer?

  I have a textbox I need to stay centered as the camera moves, but using the Anchor Block means the text always draws behind the textbox.  Is there a way to anchor the text box where I need it while keeping it on the layer I place it on?

The drawing blocks are draw on the layer of their "parent" actor. You can change that by using this block, under Drawing > Transforms:


Drawing settings are global though, so you might need to set the drawing layer back in other behaviors, so keep that in mind.

I tried that, but since the dialog is tided to the Scene and not the Textbox itself it still appears behind the Textbox, I think because it's anchored.  Or are you saying I should try to turn the Textbox into an Image?

You could send the information to the textbox and have it draw your text, that could work.

Using the Image blocks would offer more flexibility, but they have a bit of a learning curve.

Indeed, I would go as far as to call it highly complex.  I'm trying to learn how images work, but I could really find any in depth guides.  Every time I've tried to use any of the image blocks I get back an error message, I know people use them, but they just don't seem to work at all.

Set the parallax scale factor for any layer to 0 and it will act the same as the HUD layer but keep the same layer order.

Wow I didn't even know that's an option, thanks.