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I feel bad for blowing up the forum.. but I just can't find this answer.

I have two sprites set at the same position. One is hidden, and should be "deactivated" until its visible. I have tried to set the depth lower than the other sprite. But it still interferes with the spritehit command.

The sprite is a backpack. Once hit, it triggers opening the inventory. The exit button then appears. The problem is I moved them both to occupy the same location. Now, I am unable to hit the backpack icon if its on the same location, even though, I set the exit button depth below the backpack icon depth.

I have lots of sprites on top of each other, but I have them set to groups and I use the gethitspritegroup command... this is the only one giving me fits(and coincidentally I do not have them set as groups).

Surely, there is some way to deactivate a sprite? I looked at setspriteactive but that seems to only affect physics and animation. Is my only option to load the exit button and then delete the sprite every time I open and close? My inventory "script" already seems to be pretty intensive. I fear doing this will cause lag (granted that may be baseless I have no idea).

Hoping to hear your experiences or any tricky solutions.

I remember having similar issues in the past using getspritehitgroup and I replaced by SetSpriteCategoryBit and GetSpriteHitCategory which imo have more flexibility to handle. Just remember to add and remove each sprite for each category.

Maybe someone might have more tips for using getspritehitgroup though.

Post your progress Golelorn!

Best!

are you saying the backpack is not set in a group?
easiest solution is make the backpack and the other sprite different group numbers and use GetSpriteHitGroup just like you do with all the other sprites.

if it is already a group then technically it's a bug as the help says it should take depth into account.

but i've never had any issues using groups so might just be a mistake?

otherwise you can use
SetSpriteCategoryBit and GetSpriteHitCategory
as richard_6 suggests - works exactly the same as groups for general use.

Its not working because the other sprite is above it blocking detection. I was just saying that I don't have that problem with other sprites. I have things beneath them, and they work.

Setspritedepth is not setting it underneath for detection purposes. Wondering if there is a way to set collision off for a sprite like we can in 3d.

to turn off collision for sprites use SetSpriteShape(id,0)