Layers and Clipping question

[Jerakin]

In complex scenes stencils can be quite frustrating to work with.

Here is an example (scroll down to Example of the complexity stencil add)

Draw calls and Defold

@britzl wrote a nice summery here How to "merge" sprites in defold - #35 by britzl here is a blatant copy of it! To clarify: Rendering of sprites, spine models, particle fx etc Rendering is based on z-order, back to front. Components on different depths will be batched unless one of the following is different from the previous component: Component type (sprite, spine, particle, label, model) Texture Material Blend mode, tint etc Collection proxies Note: Each particle emitter will result in…

The “correct way” is simply to work as defold forces you to work. Meaning set everything “under” a stencil to the null layer (as the example shows). There are also other ways to do this like breaking out parts into separate gui scenes and loading in them as new scenes with a higher gui.set_render_order.