Child node colorrect position not follow the parent node, any way to lock the position on the parent

origami

I have richtextlabel as parent with a child is color rect.

When the game start the richtextlabel will fall down but the colorRect stay on the left top. Anyway to make child just follow the parent node?

Here is my code about richtextlabel moving:

# Called every frame. 'delta' is the elapsed time since the previous frame.
func _process(delta):
	rect_position.y += FallDownSpeed * delta

Erich_L

First question- you said "I have richtextlabel as parent with a child is color rect" but you show a screen shot of you having the parent as canvas layer with a color rect child.

cybereality

That is exactly how a CanvasLayer is supposed to work by design. It allows you to place things on the screen in positions that do not move with the camera or viewport. If you need it to move, you should just delete the canvas layer altogether and have the color rect as a direct child, or parent it to a Control node if you need to adjust it further.

origami

@cybereality said: That is exactly how a CanvasLayer is supposed to work by design. It allows you to place things on the screen in positions that do not move with the camera or viewport. If you need it to move, you should just delete the canvas layer altogether and have the color rect as a direct child, or parent it to a Control node if you need to adjust it further.

Hi it is just a try follow your advice here:

https://godotforums.org/discussion/comment/62902#Comment_62902

I want make a richtextlabel with a border, you said use ColorRect to make it. And I think it is a good idea. But when I try to make it I found that the ColorRect Node has no attributes about z-inex or layer. Seems cant modified the overlapping order.

Without change the z-index, the ColorRect Node will be on top of the RichTextLabel. The text on the richtextlabel is overlapped.

I do some research and found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/c263uj/z_index_on_control_nodes/ Which tell me to use Canvas Layer as the parent of the ColorRect Node.

So I am little confused when the CanvasLayer wont follow the parent node.

The reason I want add border on richtextlabel is in my typing game, I want use the border to indicate the current focus word. If it is not easy to add border I just change the color of the richtextlabel also make it.

cybereality

The Control node should be the root. Then you place the text and background in whatever order your want.