y-sorting doesn't work

[ocean jasper]

Can someone give us a crash course on this?
We set everything up as specified:
Character, Tilemap, and tilemaplayers all have Y-sorting enabled, and are on the same layer, we lowered the y sort origin to the base of the sprite, and it's still appearing in front of the character.
We have tried:
*Enabling y-sort only on the parent node that contains nodes we want to y-sort
*Enabling y-sort on the base node, putting character in base node instead of tilemap
*Moving texture origin to the bottom of the tree's tile
*Moving texture origin to the bottom of the player's tile
*Resetting the tree tile's origin offset
*Having the player on a lower Z-index than the tree
*Having the player on a higher Z-index than the tree
*Having the player and tree on the same Z-index
*Updating to a new version of Godot, changing the tilemap into TileMapLayers

please fucking help us

we feel like crying

this was supposed to be an easy starter project to learn the engine

we're working from a tutorial

[trim fog]

might have to see screenshots

for now, of the texture origins specifically

[pale wing]

what are the z-indices of the layers of your tilemap?

[ocean jasper]

1

[pale wing]

is the green background a separate node or part of the tilemap? you could also try moving the player ahead of the tilemap in the scene tree

[ocean jasper]

part of the tilemap

well, here:

[pale wing]

all layers are on the same z-index?

[pale wing]

if the top of the tree is doing what you want, try drawing the bottom part of the tree on a layer with a lower z index

this is an example i made after upgrading the project to 4.3 and using tilemaplayers. the background (road, grass) are on the lowest z-index 0. the base of the lamppost is also on z-index 0 but on a different layer. the player sprite is on z-index 1. the top of the lamppost is on yet another layer 2

[stark sorrel]

I recently had a bunch of problems with y-sorting too. I'm not super experienced with this stuff but I figured mentioning what solved it for me, as maybe you have the same problem?
What I did to make it work was to enable y-sorting on the tilemap layer nodes, the parent for all the tilemaps (Node2D), and the parent of that parent (world). Since the player is a parent of World, it does not need to have y-sort on. I imagined that this would also mean that the tilemap layer parent doesn't need to either, but for some reason it does

[ocean jasper]

yes

[ocean jasper]

we considered this, but there are objects that we need the player behind and in front of that are 1x1 tiles

[ocean jasper]

Literally all the layers have y-sort enabled

[stark sorrel]

Including Node2D and world?

[ocean jasper]

yes

[stark sorrel]

Aah damn. Sorry but that was my only idea for what the issue could be

[little sparrow]

btw, CHaracter does not need to have YSort enabled

[ocean jasper]

that isn't what the tutorial said, but we tried it and it hasn't helped

(no disrespect, thank you for offering help)

[little sparrow]

YSort controls how the children are sort.

what is the origin of you character?

is it at its feet?

[ocean jasper]

it is here,

[little sparrow]

move to its feet

[ocean jasper]

we put it at the character's feet, it didn't work

[little sparrow]

It should be at its feet

[ocean jasper]

ok, we'll try again

[ocean jasper]

done, didn't help

[little sparrow]

same for the tile ysort origin

[ocean jasper]

same result

[little sparrow]

well, baby steps

[ocean jasper]

^

[little sparrow]

you said you changed all z-index to be the same

[ocean jasper]

should we just send the entire project file here?

yes

[little sparrow]

plase do

I can take a look

just zip the project folder

[little sparrow]

ok

reset ALL z_index

including the individual tiles

don't forget the ANimatedSPrite on the player as well

character and its children do not need YSort enabled

[ocean jasper]

ok, done

[ocean jasper]

like set all z_index to 0, right?

[little sparrow]

yes

[ocean jasper]

is thiago rocha your first and last name?

[little sparrow]

yes

why?

[ocean jasper]

We're literally putting you in the fucking credits

[little sparrow]

[ocean jasper]

i mean we're still a little upset that it took literally 4 days of asking to get this result

but regardless tysm