Question

In C# I saw already the SpriteBatch class (In the XNA plugin for XBOX games). In that class is it posible to paint in layers.
Now I want to do the same in Java because I’m making braid (See my other questions) and I have an ArrayList from all the GameObjects and that list is not made in the correct paintoreder.

For exemple: I have a door but the door is painted on the player.

Martijn

Answer 1

How about sorting the items before rendering?
The background items have to be painted first and the foreground ones last.

If you have a List and items are Comparable you can use

Collections.sort(list);

If you need a special order, you can implement your own Comparator.

All that of course requires the items to hold some info on their z-position.

And you shouldn’t do this in the paint method. sort items when they’re changed, ie. added.