Render order inconsistency

[Ivan-Vankov]

I have the following Sprite Renderer and UIBlock2D with a Sort Group.


The UIBlock2D is closer to the camera and has a higher sorting order but is drawn behind the Sprite Renderer.

Why is this the case?

Setup :

• Unity 2021.3.0f1
• Core 2D (built-in renderer)
• Nova 2.0.0

Here is a unity package with an example scene for this bug:
Render Order Test.zip

Also is there a way to specify a sorting layer for a given UIBlock hierarchy?

Thanks in advance!

[dkonik]

Apologies for the confusion, but the Sorting Order property on SortGroup is not the same as Order in Layer on SpriteRenderer.

There are some limitations with the functionality Unity exposes through their Graphics APIs, which is what Nova uses for rendering. This question has come up before, though, so you can read some more details as well as some potential workarounds here. Feel free to follow up with any questions!

[Ivan-Vankov]

Thanks for the quick reply!
I was going for the second camera workaround myself.
As far as I see there is indeed no way to make Graphics.DrawMesh obey sorting layers.
Unfortunate but what can you do.