Hello, I know that I can change the background color of a view with view.bg=...;. Is it also possible to set a backgroundpicture for a view? I want to use this view to preview an entity, but it's not looking good, if I just set a background color.

use a Sky, or show a PANEL behind the Scene (-999999999...0 and sky_color/sreen_color to <0,0,0>)

or as alternative idea: set a Sprite behind the Entity ^^

I wanted to set a panel behind the view, but if I set the layer to -1 it was behind the Camera view. The camera view layer is -2 !

Why is the camera layer negative?

It was just for experimental negative. Now it's positive, but not working:

layer_sort(camera,1);
layer_sort(view_object,3);
layer_sort(panel_test,2);

panel_test is on top!!!
Also if I set the layer in the object definition it's not working. So I thought that Panels can't be behind a view, so I tried with negative layers for the camera view and then the panel was behind the camera view.
But just turn back to my point.. I want to render one entity with the view_object. NOSKY flag is set, so that the background is transparent. But to have a background I wanted to set a panel with bmap behind this view.

You can delete posts, no need for a "."

The solution is easy - panel always render above views, so you need to set the rendertarget of a view to a panel's bmap.

Did you remembet do set the view_objects SHOW flag?

I don't think the NOSKY flag will do here. You should set sky_color and sreen_color to 0, as Esper said.

Rei, that's not true:

Yes, sure I set the flag SHOW. The panel and the view_objects are visible. I moved the view half over the panel to see if it works or not, but tghe panel is on top. And yes I can set a negative layer value for my panel, but then it's also behind the camera view.

Eventually you have to post your code. Doing wild guesses won't probably help to much...

I based my answer on experience, as I had the same problem not too long ago but well, probably this was longer ago than I thought.