How do you change a sprite's sorting layer in C#?

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Basically I am making a 2D platformer and I have a sprite that is in the foreground and when my player flips a switch, I want the sprite to move to the background. I can do this manually by changing the Sprite Renderer sorting layer, but I can't seem to figure out how to change this in the code, or if it is even possible?

If not, what would be an alternate solution for what I'm trying to do?

Answer 1

To add the layer changing to emalbs answer since his example only changed sorting order on the same layer

 using UnityEngine;
     using System.Collections;
 
 
     public class SortingOrderScript : MonoBehaviour
     {
         public const string LAYER_NAME = "TopLayer";
         public int sortingOrder = 0;
         private SpriteRenderer sprite;
 
         void Start()
         {
            sprite = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
 
            if (sprite)
            {
              sprite.sortingOrder = sortingOrder;
              sprite.sortingLayerName = LAYER_NAME;
            }
         }
     }

Answer 2

Have a go at setting your SpriteRenderer's sortingOrder. The following example should enable you to manipulate it in the Inspector as your game runs.

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class SortingOrderScript : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public int sortingOrder = 0;
     private SpriteRenderer sprite;
 
     void Start()
     {
         sprite = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
     }
 
     void Update()
     {
         if (sprite)
             sprite.sortingOrder = sortingOrder;
     }
 }

Answer 3

Answer by vickygroups · Apr 17, 2014 at 09:42 PM

thank you, NoseKills - I used this, too!

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Answer 4

Answer by rollrodrig · Sep 06, 2014 at 10:28 PM

Thank you very much !! I was looking for it a lot !!

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Answer 5

Answer by koslovdenis · Jun 12, 2017 at 07:09 PM

Heyy guys what about multiple sprites at the same time?

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ShadyProductions · Jun 12, 2017 at 07:08 PM 0

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             SpriteRenderer[] sprites; //fill this however fits your game
             foreach (var sprite in sprites)
             {
               sprite.sortingOrder = sortingOrder;
               sprite.sortingLayerName = LAYER_NAME;
             }

How do you change a sprite's sorting layer in C#?

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