Depth Sorting vs Nested Groups

[Mikepicker]

Hi everyone.

I'm aware of the fact that this is an old topic, but I still don't manage to find an elegant (and possibly simple!) solution to this problem.

Here's my situation: I need my Characters to have a Shadow, therefore I create a Group for each Character where I attach the two sprites: character & shadow. I do this in such a way to have the shadow rendered behind the character (it is worth mentioning that it is not possible to achieve this by having the shadow as a child of character!).

Then, I attach every Character Group to a higher-level Group named Characters. But, enabling depth sort (y-axis) on this high-level group doesn't solve the issue.

To sum up, the group hierarchy is the following:

Characters_group -- Character_group -- character_sprite / character_shadow.

What would you suggest to do?

Thanks!

[Zeterain]

You say that depth sorting the high-level group "doesn't solve the issue."

What exactly is the issue you are experiencing?

[Mikepicker]

I've actually noticed I wasn't so clear. Anyway, the issue is simply that the depth sorting doesn't work in the case I describe.