Re: Re: Drawing only specific layers?

[imported_peterigz]

Hello. To do this what you need to do is create a particle manager for each layer, so you could have Background_PM, Middle_PM, Foreground_PM, and Overlay_PM, and call drawparticles for each one in-between each of your own layers. ie.

CurrentLevel.map.layer = 0

For Local Image:TDraw = EachIn ImageRegList[IR_Back]

Image.Render()

Next

CurrentLevel.Map.Draw (WorldX, WorldY, 0, 0, GraphicsWidth() , GraphicsHeight())

Background_PM.DrawParticles()



For Local Image:TDraw = EachIn ImageRegList[IR_Mid]

Image.Render()

Next



CurrentLevel.map.layer = 1

CurrentLevel.Map.Draw (WorldX, WorldY, 0, 0, GraphicsWidth() , GraphicsHeight())

Middle_PM.DrawParticles()



CurrentLevel.map.layer = 2

CurrentLevel.Map.Draw (WorldX , WorldY , 0 , 0 , GraphicsWidth() , GraphicsHeight() )



For Local Image:TDraw = EachIn ImageRegList[IR_Fore]

Image.Render()

Next



Foreground_PM.DrawParticles()



For Local Image:TDraw = EachIn ImageRegList[IR_Overlay]

Image.Render()

Next

Overlay_PM.DrawParticles()

You can create as many particle managers as you want to organise when you want different particles to be drawn. To see an example in action you can download the vaders game from this site where I think I used 3 different particle managers for this reason.

Hope that helps!