deepnight/gameBase

Can depth sorting be done with GameBase?

utaner opened this issue · 4 comments

utaner commented

I'm trying to make a top-down game using GameBase. I'm curious if I can sort the depth of the player with the objects in LDtk. I couldn't find any documentation about this on the Heaps.

dooderino commented
utaner commented

Take a look at Const.hx. There are some constants for layers that you can use to do this, I believe.
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It seems more like for UI, am I wrong in thinking so?

dooderino commented
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deepnight commented

I'm trying to make a top-down game using GameBase. I'm curious if I can sort the depth of the player with the objects in LDtk. I couldn't find any documentation about this on the Heaps.

If you check the Tenjutsu source code, I do exactly that:
https://github.com/deepnight/ld51-tenjutsu-48h/blob/e9f516411fc457a25d2fb56d60453a0a3bd6ed88/src/game/Game.hx#L406

Basically:

  • I have my "sortable" entities in an array or something
  • Every XX frames, I sort this array based on whatever criteria (here, the Y coordinate)
  • I call h2d.Layers "over()" method to re-order the display list based on the array order.

If your entities are not in a h2d.Layers, you may simply re-call "addChild()" for all elements using the array order. Works exactly the same.

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