Side scroller
Enemies go up and down screen (and left and right)
I need them to layer, in order, based on their y height



LIKE THIS!!!!

i cant seem to figure it out! (but I have figured out size changing)

You might try making the highest sprites go to the front first, followed by the next highest set of sprites and so on.

The stage could have:



and the sprites would have:


So the sprites with the highest Y value will end up at the back.

if 10 is too big of range then you could make it smaller and you might only need to broadcast layer adjustment when a sprite actually moved up or down.

Why not this?

go back (y position) layers

Creatality wrote:

Why not this?

go back (y position) layers

Concept is there, but the total number of layers in place will depend on the number of existing sprites and clones in your project. Your code wouldn’t be effective since the sprite would be sent immediately to the backmost layer (if the project had 5 sprites and the lowest was was situated at y=180, going back 180 layers would be the opposite of what the OP intends to achieve).

MasterofTheBrick wrote:

Creatality wrote:

Why not this?

go back (y position) layers

Concept is there, but the total number of layers in place will depend on the number of existing sprites and clones in your project. Your code wouldn’t be effective since the sprite would be sent immediately to the backmost layer (if the project had 5 sprites and the lowest was was situated at y=180, going back 180 layers would be the opposite of what the OP intends to achieve).

Oh ok