Need help with adventure style screen

#1 Put your scenery that the player can walk in front or behind in the same layer as your character sprite. For example, Layer 15.

Put anything that is always behind the character in a higher layer such as 20+ and anything that is always in front of the character in a lower layer, say 10 and below.

Next select the t2dsceneGraph in the object tree and go to the edit tab. There should be a tab further down called "Layer Management", expand it and look for layer 15. Change the drop down box for that layer from "Normal" to "Y Axis".

Now everything on layer 15 will be sorted to ensure things lower down the screen are assumed to be closer and thus rendered in front of anything higher up the screen.

There's one more step you need to do, and that's click in turn on each of the objects you've placed in layer 15 such as your character, and select the "Edit sort point" option. Move the sort point to the players feet and do the same with the other objects.

Whenever your characters sort point is below another objects sort port, he'll render in front of it, whenever it's above, he'll render behind.

You just need to setup a collision poly around the base of your objects to prevent the player from walking "through" the object, but still allowing him to walk behind it.

Hope I understood what you're trying to achieve.

#2 Ho-ho, that's perfect! :D No wonder I couldn't figure it out: there's no "layer management" info in the included 1.5 doc's. Can't find anything about it in TDN either.

Now I know what the sort points could be useful for too. Thanks twice!