Simple Question: Setting sprite.sortingLayerName

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Hello, I can't seem to set sortingLayerName. When I set it, my sprite disappears and ends up with no layer at all. His sorting layer order seems to work fine. Below is my code followed by the console output. Do I need to set it via mask or something? Thanks for the help!!

Edit: The problem line, I believe, is 35 **

using UnityEngine; using System.Collections;

public class raiselayer : MonoBehaviour {

   public int sortingOrder = 0;
     private SpriteRenderer sprite;
 
     void Start () 
     {
         sprite = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
     }
     
     void Update () 
     {
 
         bool Raise= Input.GetButtonDown Raise
         
         if (Raise)
         {
             Debug.Log ("Raise called");
             Raise();
         }
         
     }
 
     void Raise()
     {
 
         Debug.Log ("sprite = " + sprite);
         Debug.Log ("sprite.sortingOrder = " + sprite.sortingOrder);
         Debug.Log ("sprite.sortingLayerName = " + sprite.sortingLayerName);
     
         sprite.sortingOrder = 5;
         sprite.sortingLayerName = "building2";
         
         Debug.Log ("sprite.sortingOrder = " + sprite.sortingOrder);
         Debug.Log ("sprite.sortingLayerName = " + sprite.sortingLayerName);
     }
     
 }

Console Output:

Raise Called

sprite = MySprite (UnityEngine.SpriteRenderer)

sprite.sortingOrder = 1

sprite.sortingLayerName = building1

sprite.sortingOrder = 5

sprite.sortingLayerName =

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Answer by Eric5h5 · Oct 15, 2014 at 07:20 PM

You can only assign sorting layer names that already exist in your project. You need to go into the sorting layer editor and add "building2" manually.

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RayJr · Oct 15, 2014 at 07:25 PM 0

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Hi, Thanks for the suggestion. "building2" is already a sorting layer defined in my game.

Eric5h5 · Oct 15, 2014 at 08:13 PM 0

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It would seem that it's not...make sure the spelling and capitalization match exactly.

RayJr · Oct 15, 2014 at 09:20 PM 0

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Since starting this thread I moved the script from the player object to a trigger collider and re-wrote it all. This time around it worked. I now specify the renderer specifically when calling it and I copied and pasted the name of the layer. Doing all this has worked perfectly. Thanks for all your help.

Here is the final code in case someone is wondering

 public GameObject Inside; // drag in ship hull
 //    public GameObject  Rob;
     private SpriteRenderer sprite;
 
 
 
     void OnTriggerEnter2D (Collider2D bump)
     
     {
 
 
         if (Inside.renderer.enabled == true) {
             Inside.renderer.enabled = false;
             bump.renderer.sortingOrder = 2;
         } else {
             Inside.renderer.enabled = true;
             bump.renderer.sortingLayerName = "boat1" ;
             bump.renderer.sortingOrder = 5;
 
         }
     }

Answer 2

Answer by DocMcShot · Oct 15, 2014 at 07:16 PM

I believe you just need to reference the renderer component in your code, like so:

 sprite.renderer.sortingOrder = 5;
 sprite.renderer.sortingLayerName = "building2";

Try that and see if it fixes it :)

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Eric5h5 · Oct 15, 2014 at 07:19 PM 0

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The "sprite" variable is already of type SpriteRenderer.

DocMcShot · Oct 15, 2014 at 07:37 PM 0

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@Eric5h5 good call. I didn't read all of the code :/

@RayJr is this script being attached directly to the gameobject that has your sprite renderer on it? Or is the sprite renderer by chance attached to a parent or child gameobject?

Eric5h5 · Oct 15, 2014 at 08:15 PM 0

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That's not the issue...he's assigning the sorting layer name and immediately reading it back and getting nothing, which only happens if the sorting layer name doesn't exist in the project. Hence my answer. It works for building1 but not building2, so I'd guess the actual name in the project is "Building2" or "building 2" or something else that's not "building2". $$anonymous$$ight be nice if Unity would throw an exception for non-existing sorting layer names ins$$anonymous$$d of silently failing.

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