Layered Sprite, need to change sorting during animation

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Layered Sprite, need to change sorting during animation

feendrache

Hey there,
i have a layered character with a ton of animations.
The Layers of my Character are all childs to Node2D and are animated via animationPlayer and animationTree, everything is find, except that on some animations there is the need to change the sorting order in specific frames...
As Example you have a Char with two layers and in the walk animation layer 1 is below layer 0... only in frame 4 of 6 of the walk animation the layer1 needs to be on top of layer 0
Is this possible in godot and if it IS possible than how?

As i understood the z-index of all my sprites inside my node2d is not only the z-index inside the parent but for all the nodes and stuff in my scene... or am i wrong with this?

feendrache

Just for information on anyone that wants to do a similar thing, i created a function in the parent node, that contains all the sprites, that i call in my animation on a key in a method track

since it is only one specific sprite that needs the function only has one parameter with the target sorting order for the sprite.
in the function i simply call: self.move_child(new_order_pos)

maybe that helps someone out there 🙂