Sprite drawing priority
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I have an array of textures 0-5. it just happens that the last one is my background, so i set that to be at Z=1 and everything else i want to be infront of the background at Z=0. the array is drawn in order but for some reason, only the background is showing up...
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forgot to mention, i have an ortho projection with a min of 0 and a max of 5. (but also for some reason, when i put the background at anything greater than 1 like 3 or something, it doesn't show up at all...)
First off sprites are drawn in screen space unless you specify otherwise (see sprte flags) so the projection is probably not doing anything. If you are not using a z-buffer things will appear in the order that they are drawn regardless of z-position so drawing your background last will cover up everything else you have drawn. Sprite will sort the textures for you either front-to-back or back-to-front. If you are using alpha you usualy want to turn off the z buffer and sort back-to-front, if you are not using alpha you usualy want to turn the z buffer on and sort front-to-back.
You're drawing in order from back to front, i.e. background first? If you're using the ID3DXSprite, it doesn't matter what your z value is unless you pass D3DXSPRITE_SORT_DEPTH_FRONTTOBACK in as the parameter to the Begin function. Otherwise, you will need to draw them in the proper order (background first).
EDIT: Doh, turnpast beat me to it. :)
EDIT: Doh, turnpast beat me to it. :)
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