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Support / Sprite Layering

« on: December 23, 2012, 02:59:30 pm »

Hi there,

I have a question about best practices for sprite layering. I'm currently working on an oldschool rpg style game (eg Zelda ALttP, or Final Fantasy 6 or less) with tilemaps. Tilemap layering is not the issue, but layering overlapping sprites in the world itself.

I want my sprites to overlap sprites that are "behind" them (from game perspective), but are overlapped from the same sprites, if they are "behind" them. I don't know how to best describe my problem, so I made a few images with prototype graphics.

Player is the green link sprite. This is correct.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0m9Fxe6-AAQZ0FWdU1HbktWRVU

If the player walks behind the dark link sprite. This happens now, but is not correct.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0m9Fxe6-AAQV0d3bGxsaEJaQUU

And this is the correct expected behavior.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0m9Fxe6-AAQeWVQM2pTbmpKNnM

My question is: What are the best practices to get this behavior? I thought of always changing the z-positition of all sprites in regard to their y-position, but i guess thats dumb.
Another thought was to change the render queue all the time, but that would mean to create a new material every time, right?

I appreciate any help of you guys. Thanks in advance

Loofou

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Support / TileMap Layer offset

« on: August 23, 2012, 11:14:21 am »

Hello Everyone,

I don't know if I am just blind or stupid, but I can't find the layer offset function anywhere. In the 2dtk doc's tilemap tutorial there is a picture that shows layer offsets, but that feature seems to be gone in the newest version. I try to prototype my game using overlapping block tiles, so I need to set an offset in the Y coordinate for the upper layers to stack seemless to the lower blocks. Any guess where I would find the option?

I really appreciate any help with this, so thanks in advance!

Loofou