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From: Javier Ventoso <javier0003@mundivia.es>
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Subject: Re: OT sorting
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:13:57 +0200
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Change OT origin when you are making the floor packets, and retore it later.
This code works very well and it's very easy, itsn't it?

OT[BuffInd].org =zTable[BuffInd]+5;
GsSortObject4( &Floor.DOBJ2, ... );
OT[BuffInd].org =zTable[BuffInd];

Cheers,

Javier.



Tom wrote:

> I've been having a few problems with ordering tables recently. I've
> designed a kind of 45% top down graphics engine for my latest project
> and put in a walking mech model into it. The problem is that the feet of
> the mech (which are separate models) keep flickering behind the floor
> tiles. I tried a number of solutions, none of which worked, so I tried
> sorting the mech in one OT and the level in another. This kind of works,
> but I don't know what position in the world OT to sort the mech OT into.
> I suspect it's got something to do with the distance of the camera from
> the mech but everything I've tried seems not to work.
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Tom