Action scripted layers always act as top layers?

[hisham]

I used this snow effect from kirupa...
<A href="http://http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/snow.htm (/" target=_blank>[url="http://http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/snow.htm")

However, the snow effect always acts like the top layer, ok what i mean is, i have 3 layers, (1)toplayer= a car, (2)middle= snow, (3)low= background.

I want to make the snow to be seen behind the car...i hope you understand what i mean :-/, whenever i put the code from the link above it acts as the top layer and appears in front of everything.

Any help is appreciated...

[TheCanadian]

Timeline objects have depths from something like -1 to -16000. Dynamically created objets have depths from 0 to 16000 or something like that. This means that any dynamically created movie clips will appear higher than all timeline objects. If the car is a movie clip, put this code on it:


onClipEvent (load) {
swapDepths(10000);
}


Read this (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/depths.htm) :).

[ElectricGrandpa]

Either

A. Create a movie clip below the car and then create all the snowflakes in it.

B. Do what TheCanadian suggested and set the car to a higher depth.

C. Create all the snowflakes at a depth that is below -65536(which is I believe where timeline stuff is created - probably not your best bet)

-Matt

[stringy]

I made this for someone else a while ago, see if it helps.Just uses the "A" suggestion of Elec G.
There is also an added function to remove the snow.
(if i were making this for myself would probably go with Canadians solution but you have to be careful with swapDepths() or you can end up with more than one instance)

[hisham]

Thanks for the help mates! It works perfectly! and Canadian you are a genius! :thumb: