AttachEffect animation (Ares)

Bugsey827 · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 15 Apr 2008

So I have a building which buffs it's owner's units, and gives an attach effect animation to display a little star "animation" on the affected unit. This all works fine, but the problem is, I want the star to be visible on top of other units.
What I mean is that current if one unit is behind another, the unit in front can block out the unit behind's star.

See the ships in this image. The one in the front is fine...

Here I circled them, the two further back (circled in red) are partially obscured by the ships in front

Often, when units are moving or turning the star gets hidden behind the unit it's attached to, too.

The code that attaches it to the unit in the rulesmd.ini is

Code:

AttachEffect.Animation=KOMMIBUFFPIPT2
AttachEffect.Duration=-1

And the art code for that is

Code:

[KOMMIBUFFPIPT2]
AltPalette=yes
Normalized=yes
Remapable=no
DetailLevel=1

Yes the animation is added under [Animations] in the rules too.

I tried adding Layer=top to it but all that did is make them visible through the fog

Notice the stars are still being obscured by the units there lol
ZAdjust made no difference either.

Not sure what else to try. How can I make them permanently visible on top of units? Similar to how you always see the promotion insignias on top of units.

Mig Eater · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:57 am Post subject:

Use YSortAdjust=.

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Bugsey827 · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 15 Apr 2008

Thank you, that did the trick.
Setting it to 1000 made it appear over the unit and other units, whilst still being hidden behind buildings as with promotion insignias. Perfect, thanks again.