How do I z-order a jumping character in a beat'em up?

Hello! I'm making a beat'em up game using 8 direction. I had to find a way to organize the objects's z orders based on their Y position, and the simplest way to do that was with the plugin Rex Z sorter, like this:

And it worked! The character's and enemies' position is just like it should be!

Except... when the character jumps

The character's z order change, he should be in front of the enemy closer to him but is now behind him, and it makes sense. When he jumps he changes his Y position.

I tried applying a condition to that every tick I showed above that only changes z orders if the character is not jumping. But that would make enemies go over each other without changing z orders every time the character jumped.

Will I have to find another way to do this? Or does anyone know how to get around the z sorter plugin and make the character keep his z order when he jumps?

Thanks!

maybe using a helper container sprite staying on 'the ground position' for z-order?

maybe using a helper container sprite staying on 'the ground position' for z-order?

I tried that already :/. I made an object that follows the player around, stuck to his foot, when he is not jumping. When he is jumping, I tried setting the player's z order to this object's z order

And this happened, every time I jumped an enemy above me vanished!

Debugging the project I saw that the enemy wasn't set to Invisible. It misteriously vanished.

This probably happens because I'm telling to always set the object's z index based on their position, and asking once for the player to not do that bugs the plugin.

Do you perhaps have a suggestion on how to make this system without using the plugin, or another suggestion on how to try and change only the player's z order when jumping? Thanks!

Quick thought, move your current event "Sort all objects" to under a condition of Player != Jumping

Then, under an else condition, run the event "Sort all objects" but for everything except that player.

I haven't used this particular plugin so I don't know if you could do that. But maybe a family would work? Just sort the objects in the family?

Quick thought, move your current event "Sort all objects" to under a condition of Player != Jumping

Then, under an else condition, run the event "Sort all objects" but for everything except that player.

I haven't used this particular plugin so I don't know if you could do that. But maybe a family would work? Just sort the objects in the family?

That would definitely work, but unfortunately I can't make exceptions (not that I know). Maybe there's an advanced way of making exceptions with this plugin, but then it would take its simplicity away. I'll try to do that using families and not the plugin

marcosfl I have the same assets there Brilliant!

marcosfl I have the same assets there Brilliant!

Great assets, aren't they? Haha!

Thank you all for your replies, I managed to do it using families