Y-Sorting is not working with enemy while walking

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Godot Version

4.5

Question

I have player, enemy and object instances (in that order) as children of a Node2D with Z Index = 1 (background has 0), Z as Relative and Y-Sorting enabled. The objects have collision thanks to a physics layer while the player and enemy use CollisionShape2D set on their feet.

The Y-Sorting with the objects works perfectly, but whenever my player makes contact with the enemy the enemy sprite overlaps the player’s, and when they’re idle the sprite order is inconsistent.

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How did you set your sprites for enemy and player? Their sprites should be placed with an offset that their most bottom (feet) should be around local origin (0.0)

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They’re set like in the left, I tried using the offset to set it like in the right but it made things worse (I couldn’t move above the enemy).

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Can you share your node tree as a screenshot?
Maybe you should offset the immediate children of the ‘y offset enabled’ Node2D rather than the sprites.

It also helps if you share a video of the undesired behaviour.

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My node tree is:

Node 2D (overworld)
→ TileMapLayer (grass and road)
→ Node2D (grants Z-Index +1)
→ -> CharacterBody2D (player)
→ -> CharacterBody2D (enemy)
→ -> TileMapLayer (trees, rocks, etc.)

Since I’m a new user I can’t show the video directly, so here’s a link to it:

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Please check these:

  • Node2D should have y-sorting enabled.

  • The nodes below all should be on the same z-index.
    CharacterBody2D (player)
    CharacterBody2D (enemy)
    TileMapLayer (trees, rocks, etc.

  • The nodes below should probably not have y-sorting enabled. I say probably because I don’t know exactly how the child nodes are set there.
    CharacterBody2D (player)
    CharacterBody2D (enemy)
    TileMapLayer (trees, rocks, etc.

  • Make sure the nodes below are offset to make bottom (feet) of the characters are on 0,0. Not the children sprite2D nodes of them. Because if you enable y sorting on a node, it checks the position of the immediate child nodes, not grandchildren nodes.
    CharacterBody2D (player)
    CharacterBody2D (enemy)

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Sorry for the wait, here are my nodes:

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As for what you asked:

  • The overworld Node2D does have Y-Sorting enabled, and so does the internal one.
  • Those 3 nodes are in the same Z-Index, since they’re children of the internal Node2D.
  • I tried disabling Y-Sorting on those 3 children and that didn’t work.
  • I adjusted the offset again and the enemy is no longer alternating its order with the player, at least.
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Have you checked this tutorial?

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I adjusted the collision and texture origin on the trees and rocks TileMapLayer as the video said, now the player is behind everything, and when I increase the player’s Z-Index by 1 he goes above everything.

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Can you share the node tree (including full player scene, not just the main node)?