transitions within a layout

How would I make a simple transition that makes the screen fade to black for a few while and then fades in again within a layout?

I would be using this in a way to remove objects in front of the player without him saying "WTF?! objects suddenly dissappeared like bugs bunny!". So what I would like to do is fade the screen to black for a while and in that time duration, the game would destroy some objects, then fade in again, and so on. HEYLP! Whats up doc?

Create a layer as your topmost layer, place a full screen tiled background in black on it, and then fade that layer in and out whenever you need it.

Krush.

Or using Krush' suggestion, but a mosaic effect instead, gradually growing larger and larger then back again. I dunno, it's a fun effect, very retro

Create a layer as your topmost layer, place a full screen tiled background in black on it, and then fade that layer in and out whenever you need it.

Krush.

That's exactly how I do it. Even if I'm actually changing to another layout, I still manually make my own fader object on the top layer. I guess it just feels like I have more control over how it works that way.

The gradient object has all that built in, fade to transparent, fade to another color, bla, bla, bla.

Heck if we had a radial gradient you could even do a Warner Bros. title screen.

Create a layer as your topmost layer, place a full screen tiled background in black on it, and then fade that layer in and out whenever you need it.

Krush.

I'm sorry if this is a mega bump but, I want to know how to make that effect. I can't find the "fade" effect on layers.

Thanks.

Well, I was actually able to do it, but just a simple fade in/out effect. What you need to do is simple make a black tilebackground covering the whole layout, then set its opacity to 0 by default, when give it a private variable which is also equal to 0.

Now when you need to use a fade in transition, just make an event like this (lets say the private variable of black is called opa, and the black tiled bg is called black:

If black's opacity < 100

--> Every 1000 millisecond

--> opa = opa + 1

--> black's opacity = opa

Yeah, something like that. Just do the opposite for the fade out thing.