When I run my options menu in my pause menu, it is not centered. | Godot Café | Page 1

peak delta Jan 30, 2024, 2:57 PM

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The pause menu is centered in the scene, but when it is run in the pause menu, it zooms oddly. I works correctly from the main menu, however.

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this is what the main game scene looks like

orchid hazel Jan 30, 2024, 3:08 PM

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any reason why pause menu is parented to the Player node?

peak delta Jan 30, 2024, 3:13 PM

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so that when the player pauses the game, the menu appears in the frame?

orchid hazel Jan 30, 2024, 3:14 PM

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anyway a good place to put UI stuff is its own CanvasLayer https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/2d/canvas_layers.html outside of any other nodes

Godot Engine documentation

Canvas layers

Viewport and Canvas items: CanvasItem is the base for all 2D nodes, be it regular 2D nodes, such as Node2D, or Control. Both inherit from CanvasItem. You can arrange canvas items in trees. Each ite...

orchid hazel Jan 30, 2024, 3:14 PM

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peak delta so that when the player pauses the game, the menu appears in the frame?

it will also inherit all other transformations like scale and rotation

peak delta Jan 30, 2024, 3:14 PM

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ooooh ok ty

#When I run my options menu in my pause menu, it is not centered.