Y-Sort and Instanced Child Nodes

Gramps

I am working with a new project and instancing a player into a Y-sort in a level. Currently I have a game.tscn which loads in a level; it also contains the HUD and other overlay nodes.

After the level loads in and is instanced into a $Local node, I instance the player into the level which ends up looking like this:

Local
- Level
  - Tilemap
  - Ysort
    - Object 1
    - Object 2
    - Player (instanced)

The player loads in fine but is behind the tilemap. I'm not sure why this is since the tilemap is "under" the Ysort.

TwistedTwigleg

I have not used the YSort node myself, but according to the documentation, the YSort node only sorts the nodes that are its children. You may need to make the YSort the parent of both the Tilemap and the other entities.

Gramps

Yeah, I have never worked with it before. My player node (kinematicBody2d) is direct child of the YSort except that it is added by code:

$Local/Level/YSort.add_child(THIS_PLAYER)

If I add the player manually to the YSort then it works fine but if it's added by GDScript then it is below/behind the Tilemap which should be underneath everything. Very odd.

Thanks for the reply!