Godot Version
4.3
Question
I’ve been trying to properly understand how the various settings regarding render sorting work. I’m just trying to make an object that renders into the “background” (before subsequent objects are rendered) without needing to add an additional viewport etc to the game, but have been struggling.
I’ve boiled it down just to a test setup of two cubes. I’ve been trying various combinations of the no-depth-test, depth draw, render priority, sorting offset and anything else that seems tangentially related, but all I can make happen is having the cube show up in front of the other, never behind.
It’s not exactly a complex test scene:
I’ve specifically tried this with the blue cube’s render priority set both to 1 and -1 (and other values for good measure) and the white cube’s set to 0. The blue cube has No Depth Test set and as mentioned I’ve tried the various other options - all it really ever does is change its sorting with respect to the editor grid and gizmo, not the other cube. (I’ve tried in the proper game view as well, same thing). There’s nothing special done to the white cube.
So… I am clearly just not understanding something about how the render pipeline handles these things. I’ve been staring at it and squinting for too long, so I figured it was time to just get some outside assistance. I would appreciate, if nothing else, some help understanding where my thinking is going astray.