XNA controlling depth between two objects?

lyle

Is there a way outside of specifying which object gets drawn on top of which?

I know you can change the order in which things are drawn by calling SkeletonRenderer.Draw() in different orders. But is there something like LayerDepth in xna's spritebatch.draw function which will layer them based on that variable instead of the order draw is called?

lyle

Nate

No, the SpriteBatcher in spine-xna does not have depth sorting. You need to draw the skeletons in back to front order. This should be relatively simple, just sort your skeletons based on a depth value. Or, you could modify the SpriteBatcher or port the XNA sprite batching from MonoGame and make it work with your own SkeletonRenderer.

hippocoder

This is similar to my problem.

Basically I have a hard time drawing part of a spine object, then other objects, then resuming drawing.

Basically this: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=768

But this post gave me an idea - what if you could just draw SOME LAYERS SkeletonRenderer.Draw(layerindexes[])

then draw some other crap on another object then finish with SkeletonRenderer.Draw(layerindexes[]) again?

This way I get my precious ability to slot items or things in between an animating spine object. Would that work and is it a good idea to do? If so I would very much love some pointers where to begin (I use unity).

Thanks!

Nate

Yes, that seems reasonable. Begin with SkeletonComponent. 🙂 You can copy paste it and have a field that tells what slots to draw.

hippocoder

Going to rock with this angle for a bit, thanks Nate! It's only really for the main player so a bit of waste processing here should not impact anything.