#zorder

[srapanes]

Tras ver Yamato por tercera vez, era necesario.

[evilgirlboob]

great emperor zwordar: "I am he who knows Love. Deeper than any other being in the cosmos. True Love."

me: "well,, it canr possiby be deepr than my lobe for ,,,,,,my wife"

great emperor zwordar:

great emperor zwordar: "oh shit i hadnt thought of that"

[cobaltbluemarble]

[devilsworkshop]

Documenting some of the mistrials of learning Z Order Sorting in Construct3. In this case I have figured out rudimentary Z Order sorting between player and one object. The big challenge is applying Z Order sorting to an entire family of objects and building the events efficiently so that the game does not drop frame-rates 

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Let’s consider three objects

Player

A Door

A Blue Prop called RandomProp

For the first part of this exercise, lets focus on the player and the door.  The player has been assigned some basic controllers.  The Z Order Bar looks like this 

If you run the game now, the player will move behind the Door and RandomProp

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Now we are going to do a conditional check. Create a condition - where if the players pivot point.Y is greater than the door pivotpoint.Y -then resort the Z Order of the door and move it behind the player.

Quickly testing that condition we get the following results 

Ok, so it works. Initially the game checks the zorder for the three objects - the player is behind everything - so when the player moves it goes behind the door.  Now when the player moves downwards, the player pivotpoint.Y is greater than the door’s pivotpoint.Y - so the system immediately sorts the player to the top.  And when the player goes back to the top where it’s pivotpoint.Y is lesser than the door’s pivotpoint.Y - we have not assigned any condition so the player still stays Z Order sorted to the top and goes over the door. 

Let’s add another condition to instruct the system to check for Z Order sorting between Player and Door and display it correctly 

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Small update to the event sheet. Instead of moving the Door in front or behind the Player, that has been changed to the Player now moves in front or behind the Door. I anticipate there will be many objects that have to perform the same function and this method already feels inefficient. 

[devilsworkshop]

Battling ZOrder sorting in Construct 3. In theory Z Order makes sense.  On executing this command - ZOrder is a bit unexpected.  Back to the drawing board for more ZOrder sorting