Is there a way to make a child of a sprite sit at a higher z-index?

[wojo1086]

Hello all!

 

I have a sprite with some children, 3 sprites and a text. The text floats above the sprite and moves with it. I have 4 layers that in my map and the sprite is rendered after layer 2. The problem is that the text ends up behind part of the map that sits in layers 3 and 4. Is there a way to force the text to the top of everything?

[samme]

You can only reorder objects at the same level of the render tree. So you have to either move the text into the layer holding map layers 3 and 4 and then raise it or find the text's ancestor in the same layer and raise it.

You can print the tree with game.debug.displayTree().

[wojo1086]

If I move the text into a different layer, that would mean it can't be a child of the sprite. Is that correct?

[RubbleGames]

You can mimic the behaviour of a child object, for example have child.x = sprite.x etc in your update function and code the child to be removed when the sprite is. I'm not sure how good an idea this is from a performance point of view though.

[samme]

On 5/5/2017 at 2:56 PM, wojo1086 said:

If I move the text into a different layer, that would mean it can't be a child of the sprite. Is that correct?

Right, it would be the child of another Group instead.

It should work fine if you do something like

// update():
spriteText.position.copyFrom(sprite.position);