Render order of templates / GUI and pick_node

Questions
1

Hi! I have a couple of questions:

1/
I have gui-scene with many templates.
Can I control the render order of templates?
(except using layers)

2/
Assume that I have game objects with gui inside (call them the chips for example)
This chips are created using factory. And I use pick_node for their gui

So. I create chips:

print( factory.create("#chips_factory", pos) )
– /instance123
print( factory.create("#chips_factory", pos) )
– /instance124

… and so on. Pick_node works fine

I remove some objects from the scene and create new chip:
print( factory.create("#chips_factory", pos) )
– /instance25

And now if last chip (/instance25) overlap old chips (even if render_order of new chip is greater) pick_node works for old chips first of all.
Is it normal behavior?

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You control the render order either through layers or how you hierarchically nest your gui nodes. There is no other way of controlling the draw order within a gui scene.

gui.pick_node(node, x, y) doesn’t care about render order of gui nodes. It simply checks if the coordinates specified are within the bounds of the node. You need to do your gui.pick_node() calls in an order that corresponds to the order in which they are rendered or in which makes sense to your scene.