hi Staff ^^

I´ve a problem with my game..
I´m creating Modeltiles on the X/Y plane - And above this plane, i add a second one with a Fog-of-War Shader.
Problem:
Every 32Bit Sprite, texture, ...etc is shining through the black fog..
problem is the entity sorting.
A user of the Forum advised me to ask for an upgrade of the d3d_entsort, to be able to sort the Z direction too.
like

d3d_entsort = 3; //Sort ents on Y
d3d_entsort = 4; //Sort ents on Z


any chance to get something like that in one of the next updates?

This is rather pointless, because d3d_entsport = 2 sorts entities by their XY-distance to the camera. So, it would be the easiest if you would flip/rotate your game world instead to take advantage of that.

the problem is..
my complete movement, battle, digging, building and random-placer codes are based on a XY plane.. changing all of them.. is not really what i want..c ause i´m working since A6 for that game.. and i really don´t want to waste more time than needed..

So.. i can wait for a Z Sorting system, cause we are redoing the mapping system at the moment. But changing all of the codes just cause Z sorting is not supported.. is not really fun and easy (i really don´t know if i can recode everything working )

GS has it's reasons to use Z as the height axis. Why lever out this principle as a workaround to use an engine feature which can easily be implemented by the engine-developer in another variation which allows to stay with the system's philosophy?
Also flipping axes for an whole project will certainly introduce more work than to be expected first. And again, it would only be a workaround.

Ok, we'll implement sorting entities by z only.