pop sprite to top

[InsaneHero]

I would like to pop a sprite to the top of the drawing stack (I'm create a new level but want to hold onto the existing player instance which will eventually animate during the level transition effect, currently the 2nd level is drawing over the player).

 

As far as I can tell renderOrderID dictates the drawing order... but I hacked in something which sets player.renderOrderID to game.world.currentRenderOrderID++ and that's not doing it.

 

Does anyone have a good solution (while I dig through the source some more)?

 

[InsaneHero]

Ah found it.  It is of course a Pixi wrapper... player.bringToTop()

And now I know a whole lot more about the Phaser/Pixi interface

EDIT: I want to mark this thread solved but that involves me marking my answer to my own question as the 'best' answer... is that bad etiquette on this forum?

[Mike]

Since you've explained the solution I think it is ok.

 

Btw i just want to add that there are 2 examples:

 

input/bring to top.php

input/bring to top2.php

[rich]

Yeah there is bringToTop for a Group specifically or for the World. It's also a function on Sprite. Pixi doesn't support it natively, but it was easy enough to implement. Perhaps counter intuitively there are 2 demos in the input folder as Mike said.

[InsaneHero]

Ah, thanks for that.  I was looking in the games and camera for it - didn't think to look in input.

I will sit down and work through all the examples before asking any more questions!