Can Defold handle character sprite made of different parts like Diablo II?

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@ross.grams

Render Order/Z-position — It depends on your animations, but dealing with this could be a real deal breaker. For example, with your east-facing character and that side-to-side sword swing—At the beginning, the sword is drawn behind the body, cloak, arms, etc, but then he swings it around and it needs to be drawn in front of everything else. Also the different parts may need to change draw order depending on the facing direction. If facing North, the cloak will overlap the body, but facing South, it’s the opposite.

Thinking out loud, if you could get some depth data for each animation, it wouldn’t be too hard to animate the Z position of each part, which makes it more of a workflow problem than a technical one (i.e. how do you create that “depth data”).

Yes, I have noticed this kind of problem too (if we talk about attack gif and sword on it). Maybe this kind of approach can help?

But, if we talk just about different directions there is no problem here because with Blender I can do masking.

Cloak North:

Cloak South:

So actually, all the parts are on the same Z position.