Dynamically hide part of a sprite.

[SalmonPunch]

I want certain pixels of the player's sprite to be hidden if those pixels overlap with something that is supposed to be "Above" him (IE, if he is standing behind a building, and half his body is behind the building, then that half is not drawn. Is there any way to do this efficiently with 2DToolkit?

I know there is Texture2D.SetPixel, but I have no idea how to use it in this context.

Thanks in advance.

[Trigve]

You could achieve this with sorting layers and sorting order in the given layer. Or setting the different Z position for the building and the player. I think there something about this in the documentation in the sprite section.

[SalmonPunch]

I would prefer the technologically advanced solution since it will save me a lot more work in the long run, but I will investigate layers if I can't get this method to work.

so back to the original question, could I use SetPixel to achieve this?

[Trigve]

You could but it would be slow and you will need to somehow find  exactly which pixels to "hidden". And I don't find the SetPixel method particularly nice nor the "technologically advanced solution".

[unikronsoftware]

Sorting layers is the preferable solution here, SetPixel is incredibly (unusably) slow.