iirc complete transparency (doesn't show) is generally on an unpaletted sprite and it'll convert to white/black depending on program. Niether of those are particularly good colours so you may be better served to index them, then recolour and then recolour any bits that get caught up in the transparency settings.

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For this example at the starting point the X velocity is at its negative maximum and the Y velocity is at zero and then increasing to its positive maximum.
This means the X vel has to be -cos(...) and Y vel has to be sin(...)

Try this:
x = -cos(Time*Pi/180)
y = 0.5*sin(Time*Pi/180)

If you want a faster movement use 60 or 120 instead of 180.

It's actually a bindtoparent effect. Check out the code library, there's something in there.

I guess you want your player/helper to make a oval movement without itself rotating?
Then just give it a periodic (sin/cos) x and y velocity with the x velocity being higher than y (like 2 times or 3 times higher).

Use velocities like this:
A*cos(Time*Pi/B)
"A" determines how big the "ellipse" is and "B" how long it takes for one rotation.
Keep in mind that you've got to use different functions for the x and y velocity ("cos" for one and "sin" for the other).

4,2,2,1 means you fight 4 characters who have order = 1, then 2 characters who have order = 2, then 2 who have order = 3, then 1 who has order = 4.