Tilemap, sorting sprites

Hi,

Do you know the best way to create top-down 2D map (Tibia-like) with proper sorting?

This tree is placed on Tilemap grid. Player is of course separated object with Sprite Renderer.
How should I make player render only over the trunk part which will have collisions?

This is what I want

Over the trunk and under the leaves.
Should I write script for that or are there any components that could let me do that?

 

There are really two parts to the tree: the trunk and the leaves.

And I think there are two issues. The first is sprite sorting. The second is: How tall is the tree supposed to be? The left image doesn't look correct to me. Is the tree really a short shrub? Is the player taller than the shrub? If not, the leaves should always should sort on top of the player no matter where the player is.

If you want the leaves to always appear above the player, set it on a higher sorting layer.

Otherwise, it might work to set the Transparent Sort Axis to (1,1,0). Here's Unity's tutorial: Sorting Groups and Transparency Sort Axis.

If that doesn't fit your needs, this article by Breadcrumbs Interactive might be useful. I think it was written before Transparency Sort Axis was available. They discuss an alternate method and provide a little source code.

 

Huh, had Post-Processing enabled so Transparency Sort Axis wasn't available, had to create new project. Setting axis to (0,1,0) works actually pretty well.