Sprites as backgrounds

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How can my students use images as backgrounds with out the image covering up the other sprites? We are in Lesson 22 creating our own games.

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Thank you for your help.

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I think this is the right answer, but someone may correct me if I’m wrong. If you create the background first, it should be on the bottom layer… here’s a link to a project I made and I declared the “stars” variable (the background sprite) before the platforms. https://studio.code.org/projects/gamelab/00AogJC4atcHhdbGvbBIu7CIlOB1lCV383TerKiAtS0

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This has helped tremendously, thank you! However, now the score doesn’t show up. Is there a fix for that? Also, how do they then change the background to a new background sprite?
Thanks for any help you can provide!

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@rlhauptman5

Hi Robyn,

showScore() and showLives() need to come after drawSprites() in the draw loop. Otherwise, the background sprite will cover up the text that they draw.

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@elizabeth_admin
That makes perfect sense. Thank you, we’ll try it out in class today.