Legacy GM [SOLVED] Will a parent object having a sprite affect children?

[Dr_Nomz]

Will it affect them in any way at all? Or will it basically mean nothing?

Just asking because I need to have it have a sprite or I get an error...

 

[immortalx]

If it's just a controller object that you put in a room and as long as it's outside the view, I don't see why it would be a problem.
I'm putting sprites in my controller objects (just a single fill color and maybe some text) because I'm having trouble seeing the default question mark icon and never had an issue.
Unless it's something else you need to accomplish.

 

[Roderick]

Children are exactly the same as the parent, except for any attributes that you override; those replace the attributes of the parent.

So if all children have a sprite, none will ever show the parent sprite. If you want to make sure the parent sprite never shows, set it to a fully transparent sprite, or set the parent alpha to 0, and reset it to 1 on the children.

 

[TheouAegis]

Children are exactly the same as the parent, except for any attributes that you override; those replace the attributes of the parent.

So if all children have a sprite, none will ever show the parent sprite. If you want to make sure the parent sprite never shows, set it to a fully transparent sprite, or set the parent alpha to 0, and reset it to 1 on the children.

Children share the same EVENTS, not the same attributes. A child with no sprite is a child with no sprite, regardless of what the parent object has. The only time the parent object overrides the child object is if the parent object has code inside an event that the child object doesn't have. It doesn't matter if you set image_alpha=0 or visible=0 in the parent object if the child object has ANY code, including comments, in the same event.

 

[Roderick]

Children share the same EVENTS, not the same attributes.

Crap, you're right. I'm getting different IDEs mixed up.

 

[kupo15]

the parent also doesn't have to be in any rooms to be used as a controller parent

 

[Dr_Nomz]

Okay thanks for the help guys!

I didn't run into any issues after that so I'm good now. ^_^