Tile Map sorting problems

I'll be short... My level is a tile map, and the player gets rendered behind the plants and grass or on top. is there a way for the player to get rendered behind if its, for example, in the upper half of a tile or something like that?

I want to implement this on the next GGJ in a few days, so any sugestion will be really apreciated.

Thanks for the help and sorry for the redaction, i don't speak english.

 

What you could do is, if you know the height of your tile you could change the player's z position, or sorting order, based on whether its y position is higher than the base of the tile + half the height of the tile.

 

Hi mvriel, thanks for the answer. That can work but in specific cases.

If i have two tiles, one in the upper position of the other, and the player its standing in the upper half of the bottom tile it should be rendered behind that one and in top of the other, at the same time.

You have given me an idea, maybe i can change the individual z position of every row of tiles and get the desired effect.

 

Use the custom transparency sort axis:
https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials...ion/sorting-groups-and-transparency-sort-axis

 

Thamks for the reply but, sadly, it does not work. If it is the lower half of the tilemap renders everithing behind, and the oposite if it is in the upper half. Looks like the system is not looking at individual tiles, is taking the entire tilemap as one.

 

Yes, that is the expected behavior -- sorting per renderer. You can use the prefab brush or gameobject brush to place additional objects into the grid as separate SpriteRenderers, or place them by hand as children of the grid. Then your objects will sort separately. Single objects made of multiple renderers can use the SortingGroup component on the root object to sort as one object.

You can also create custom Tiles that spawn prefabs into the grid on StartUp, to preserve the tile-only approach.

 

Looks like that is the way of do it, thanks.