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How do you change a sprite's sorting layer in C#?
Basically I am making a 2D platformer and I have a sprite that is in the foreground and when my player flips a switch, I want the sprite to move to the background. I can do this manually by changing the Sprite Renderer sorting layer, but I can't seem to figure out how to change this in the code, or if it is even possible?
If not, what would be an alternate solution for what I'm trying to do?
To add the layer changing to emalbs answer since his example only changed sorting order on the same layer
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class SortingOrderScript : MonoBehaviour
{
public const string LAYER_NAME = "TopLayer";
public int sortingOrder = 0;
private SpriteRenderer sprite;
void Start()
{
sprite = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
if (sprite)
{
sprite.sortingOrder = sortingOrder;
sprite.sortingLayerName = LAYER_NAME;
}
}
}
It works for me, i dont know why this cain of samples are not in the unity docs... Thank you again
Have a go at setting your SpriteRenderer's sortingOrder. The following example should enable you to manipulate it in the Inspector as your game runs.
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class SortingOrderScript : MonoBehaviour
{
public int sortingOrder = 0;
private SpriteRenderer sprite;
void Start()
{
sprite = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
}
void Update()
{
if (sprite)
sprite.sortingOrder = sortingOrder;
}
}
Just WTF is this not in the documentation?! Thanks for the info, guys. Sorting layers are defined for all Renderers (in the API), if anyone wonders.
thank you, NoseKills - I used this, too!
Thank you very much !! I was looking for it a lot !!
Heyy guys what about multiple sprites at the same time?
SpriteRenderer[] sprites; //fill this however fits your game
foreach (var sprite in sprites)
{
sprite.sortingOrder = sortingOrder;
sprite.sortingLayerName = LAYER_NA$$anonymous$$E;
}
