Way to make a star shadowish once collected

[Monkey75]

Hello, it's me (again).

I want to know a way to make a star shadow-ish once collected,
just a way to remember us that there was a star here.
Actually in my world, when a star is collected, and when I go near where was the star, there is just nothing,
I want to have the star, here, but shadow-ish (since it has already been collected, taking the star again will not give you a new star)


The star is not collected.


The star is collected, and it disappeared.

Is that possible to make the star when collected shadow-ish (and not make it disappear) ?

Like in the new Marios, when you take a coin star, and you do the level a second time, the coinstar is transparent and shadow-ish.


Thank for helping me.

[bossedit8]

Hide it as default and make a layer for the stars. Make a event that basically triggers so that the star appears at the place you want it to be so it's always visible during gameplay.

Other way is to make a background object for the star placement and just simply place it where the star will gonna be so the background object is always there. STTB2 did it the same.

That's your 2 choicements you have so far.

[Monkey75]

Thanks.
But the first choice is complicated, and I must do that for all levels.

I've already tried the second choice, but the stars are moving up and down, and the background object not, so it's a little bit like if the stars duplicated itself.
That doesn't work.

[h2643]

but the stars are moving up and down, and the background object not

Attach them to Stars
Err, I mean attach the Stars to BGOs, that way it will work.

[Monkey75]

Ok, but how I attach them ?
in the "view layer" option, there are just "default", "destroyed blocks" and "spawned NPCs".
Background and NPCS are in the same layer.
I can't move the stars to the background layer.

[bossedit8]

Make a new layer for the background object and then you can attach it.

[Magician]

Make a new layer and put the BGO on that layer. Then, on the star, under "Attach to Layer" you select the layer the BGO is on.

[Monkey75]

I've done that, but the star is now invisible (can't see it, can't collect it) when I test the level.

edit : I found the problem. Now, that works, thanks. The only little thing is that the star is moving before collection but not after

[Magician]

Yeah, that's normal. The star causes the background object to move, so when it's gone the background object stops. The alternative would make things like kuribo's shoe goombas not work properly.

[RudeGuy]

edit : I found the problem. Now, that works, thanks. The only little thing is that the star is moving before collection but not after

You could then attach the star to something that looks like a fake star, like this (it's up to you to recolor everything though).

[Monkey75]

That work, but a little bit,
I've found a problem.
I don't know why, but if I have stars in one section, the ones in the other section don't work.

[RudeGuy]

You can have only one star per section.

[Monkey75]

I've got a section with one star, it doesn't work, and the other with two works

[RudeGuy]

Maybe you haven't attached the star to the BGO/NPC properly? (remember that the star should be attached to the BGO/NPC, not the other way)

[Monkey75]

I did it correctly, but that doesn"t work