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Arranging sprites behind a parent sprite
Currently, to my knowledge, there doesn't seem to be a way to arrange a child sprite behind a parent sprite. The arrange menu only seems to affect the order amongst children of a sprite.
While it is possible to do in code it would help a lot if that function was available in cocosbuilder.
Yes, this is a needed feature. Will try to figure out some good (interface wise) way to do this. Suggestions much appreciated!
I would be happy to help with interaction design on this project as UX is my main area of expertise. However I cannot find any design documents or similar in the rep. Is design managed elsewhere?
Look at how it is done in Photoshop or sny Apple app - stuff we are familiar with.
This is actually something that I would like to see done. Perhaps have a property in the properties menu that sets zlevel instead of having zlevel defined by position on the tree? A current project is riding on this functionality and it's kinda hacky right now :)
Does cocos2d even support this? My understanding was that children always draw in front of the parent.
This is possible, with modification of VertexZ. The only problem with this is that it's possible to cause zfighting without care. I think it could be implemented as an advanced option, because it's fairly labour intensive to get it to work correctly.
You shouldn't need to play with the VertexZ. Setting the ZOrder of the node to negative should draw it before its parent.