You mean completely erasing it

[forest crystal]

Can you explain like, in very basic terms what you want to happen to the tile and why

[stone nacelle]

I want my character to be seen behind the building

I am using a sprite mask for that purpose

But sprite mask alone does not function very good

Cause even if my character is staying "in front" of the said building, sprite mask does not care and applies it effect anyway

So what I did is wrote a script which checks if the tile "below" is not null, and if its tilemap's renderer sorting order is the same as the character's

But now there is a problem with how densely packed tilemaps are behaving

At this point I need to either rewrite my code completely or distribute sprites into different tilemaps

And at this point I can as well use individual sprites

[forest crystal]

My first idea would be to draw the fronts of buildings on the ground tilemap which the player is always on top of, and the top parts of the buildings on a different tilemap which the player gets always masked through

Very thin objects like trees would still be sprites

[wide wren]

This has been my go-to for buildings as well

[forest crystal]

Tilemaps have more limitations than sprites due to being effectively one procedural sprite collectively, but you'd still use it over sprite when there's way too many individual parts to place and render without it

[stone nacelle]

I see

Well, I am thinking about what you said earlier

If disabling the sprite is the same as removing a tile

[forest crystal]

That I'm not sure about

[stone nacelle]

I guess, there is a way to do this? I will have to store all the deleted tiles, their positions in a list, and then, when I need to bring them back, just do so

It is a bother, ofc, but, I guess, it solves some of my headache

My current set up works pretty good with buildings. The problem I am having now is how it works with trees

[forest crystal]

Yes, it seems you can't hide a tile without clearing the cell itself so it'd be a solution to keep a reference copy of the cells to re-add them from

But that sounds like a headache to me on its own

Maybe it's not to you!

[forest crystal]

Why not keep the buildings as they are but use sprites for the trees?

[stone nacelle]

Yeah, might as well

Thanks, Spazi

It doesn't seem like this channel has a lot of people who answer questions, so thanks a bunch

[lyric tinsel]

Most of the people in here who answer questions don't use tilemaps, despite the same few questions about tilemaps being like 80% of the posts in here.

They won't make a tilemap channel though.

[forest crystal]

Not even I use tilemaps, heh
Maybe all those tilemap people could combine their powers to help each other

[lyric tinsel]

Just saying, it is hardly fair to insult everyone when they have no reason to know the answers to their questions.

[forest crystal]

Who's insulting who?

[lyric tinsel]

It doesn't seem like this channel has a lot of people who answer questions I hear this sort of things constantly and it hurts.

[forest crystal]

Oh
I wouldn't take it as an insult
There's like two of us on a good day so it doesn't seem untrue