How to make an object appear underneath texture?

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-05-06 12:11:04
User: CalvinMT [] (age: 1451 days 🔥; posts: 114)}
Hi!
I'm currently wondering if there's a way to make creatures appear underneath texture (as for when an object appears under another object due to its vertical position).
For testing, I tried ordering the layers in Tiled so that the "default" layer which contains all objects would be under some other layers of texture, but that ended without changes.
Any hint, clues or plans on the subject ?

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-05-07 08:15:40
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
If I understood correctly, this is a matter of seconds : just give a tile layer in Tiled a custom property "RENDERTYPE" and set it to "OVERLAY".

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-05-07 09:32:21
User: CalvinMT [] (age: 1451 days 🔥; posts: 114)}
nightm4re
Wouldn't it be easier to just look at the layer's order instead of having to specify that one has to appear on top?

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-05-07 10:56:47
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
Quite frankly, that is obviously not a bad idea. The way we handle layering is an ancient part of litiengine. However, utiLITI was designed around placing mapobjects and not touching tile layers at all. We will have to rewrite considerable portions of the editor in order to include editable Tile layers. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I'm just saying there are more important waypoints currently ahead of us 😅
p. S. : RenderType-internally, the layers are rendered by their order as you would expect.