Problems with YSort

Xecestel

I'm making a 2D top-down game and to arrange all the tiles and objects I'm using the YSort. Some of the tiles represent small objects that can be on pieces of furniture of different sizes or even on the floor. However, depending on these scenarios the rendering priority tends to break with YSort.

For example: Those bottles work fine and well when they're on that counter, but

they completely break when they're on the floor.

This also happens when the piece of furniture they're on is, let's say, a shelving unit, and they are on the bottom shelf. They work perfectly fine on any other shelf. Do I need to make a completely new TileMap to make them work or is there a way or a workaround to fix this?

Thanks in advance. <3

fire7side

You need to change the position of the sprite by offsetting it. https://kidscancode.org/godot_recipes/kyn/ysort/

Xecestel

I already did, the problem is that I offset them so that they work well when they're on tables and counters, but they break like that when they're on the ground or on bottom shelves. If I offset them to look good on the floor, on the other hand, they break when I put them on a table.

fire7side

@Xecestel said: I already did, the problem is that I offset them so that they work well when they're on tables and counters, but they break like that when they're on the ground or on bottom shelves. If I offset them to look good on the floor, on the other hand, they break when I put them on a table.

If there aren't too many positions you can change it in script. Some event must put them on the floor, so you could change the offset at that point, or you can have another sprite with the offset and change sprites. I used to have the sprites not visible that got moved and then make them visible and the other ones invisible. But yeah, you are going to have to programmatically do it somehow, I think.