Y-Axis Sorting without the level editor
by Peter Robinson · in Torque Game Builder · 09/17/2006 (11:51 pm) · 2 replies
I've dug pretty deep on this one and I can't find a thing. I want to use the Y-Axis sorting mode (one of the new cool fetures of 1.1.1) but I don't use the level editor since my game is close to done and I don't really want to start over. Everything out there simply says to click on the scene graph and use the Layer Management thing. I need to know the script calls for changing the sort modes for layers. If anyone can help, I would be extreamly greatful.
-Peter
-Peter
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A programmer who has been using the Torque2D game engine since the early adopter days. My game is Pirate Code and it can be found at www.circuithive.com. It will be arriving on Steam in 2016.
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%levelContent = new t2dSceneGraph() { canSaveDynamicFields = "1"; class = "level"; UseLayerSorting = "1"; layerSortMode0 = "Normal"; layerSortMode1 = "Normal"; layerSortMode2 = "Normal"; layerSortMode3 = "Normal"; layerSortMode4 = "Normal"; layerSortMode5 = "Normal"; layerSortMode6 = "Normal"; layerSortMode7 = "Normal"; layerSortMode8 = "Normal"; layerSortMode9 = "Normal"; layerSortMode10 = "Y Axis"; layerSortMode11 = "Normal"; layerSortMode12 = "Normal"; layerSortMode13 = "Normal"; layerSortMode14 = "Normal"; layerSortMode15 = "Normal"; layerSortMode16 = "Normal"; layerSortMode17 = "Normal"; layerSortMode18 = "Normal"; layerSortMode19 = "Normal"; layerSortMode20 = "Normal"; layerSortMode21 = "Normal"; layerSortMode22 = "Normal"; layerSortMode23 = "Normal"; layerSortMode24 = "Normal"; layerSortMode25 = "Normal"; layerSortMode26 = "Normal"; layerSortMode27 = "Normal"; layerSortMode28 = "Normal"; layerSortMode29 = "Normal"; layerSortMode30 = "Normal"; layerSortMode31 = "Normal"; cameraSize = "100 75"; cameraPosition = "313 313";So just set layerSortModeNN = "Y Axis"; on the layers you want sorting on.