How do I hide character sprite behind wall?

First of all i am total newbie in game development. May be there is many topics about this but i could not find anything that i found helpfull. Everything is fine from front but when character walks behind the wall i can see him through. Is there easy way to fix this?

Hey Matov hi.

Of course you can.

First solution is to make the z-index of your player lower than the walls z-index(right click to wall and sent to front or edit the z-index) .

Second solution is to make a new layer with the walls that you want your player to be behind and put above the layer that you have your player.

Cheers.

So you can only do one or another option? i mean you cant get behind a wall that you put to bottom and you cant get to front of a wall that you put to top of the layer. But i wanted to know is that possible to be invisible behind a wall and be visible in front of it? Like in old isometric 2d games

So you can only do one or another option? i mean you cant get behind a wall that you put to bottom and you cant get to front of a wall that you put to top of the layer. But i wanted to know is that possible to be invisible behind a wall and be visible in front of it? Like in old isometric 2d games

It's quite easy.

Compare the y-component of your sprite against the wall's y-component and set the z-index accordingly.

Hey —

Alright forget about the z-index i will just give you a straight example how to do this without the need to mess around with the z-index and the action of add another layer .But keep in mind if you are a complete newbie as you say, you have to read the manual to understand the meaning of the z-index and stuff like that.

Here you go.

http://www.filedropper.com/hidesprite

I didn't want to mess around with overlaping etc. so i just add a simple variable to the wall sprite. (Move the keyboard arrows.)

Cheers.

Edit : i just read that you need this action for isometric 2d style game.So i think zenox98 way its "the way" to do it.

Oh, i could not open file because its 218 version while i have 216. I also tried Zenox98's way and its wonderfully works on one sprite but when i want to add family or tilemap its not working.

after some time i tried to create new foreground layer and started to paint tilemap on it that will hide character to create depth effect but its not an ideal solution because i had to increase collision box of walls and now its become not very realistic.

if someone has suggestion on tilemap z ordering i will be gratefull.