Object on object (Solved)

[smartastreacle]

Hi,

Let's see if I can explain this well:

I have a country scene object (A) bigger than the display area which I want to move around so it looks like we are flying over it. I have another object (B) which may be a windmill which I wish to animate. Object B starts out of the display area and appears when we move the scene (A). My question is - can I anchor B at coordinates on A so it moves with A and so treat A as a background? For various reasons I can't do a normal background thing. Hope this is clear? Any advice welcome. I see there are changes being made to the forum, hope this question appears.   

[heltenjon]

Would it work if you made both objects characters and had the one follow the other, perhaps? I believe follow_exactly is what is most commonly used for shadows and the like, so it may work in this case, too.

[Khris]

You can keep moving the windmill object in relation to the scene one.
Example code:

Code: ags

  oWindmill.X = oGround.X + 234;
  oWindmill.Y = oGround.Y - 345;

You either call this after moving the ground or inside repeatedly_execute.

[smartastreacle]

Great stuff both. I will try them and update. Thank you.

[smartastreacle]

I tried both and they both work. However, I prefer to keep moving the windmill object in relation to the scene object method because I don't want too many characters: although I have used the character idea before and it worked. 
(I have edited this because I got it the wrong way round!)