vbGore Free Online RPG Engine

Left to right:

1) Standard sprite.
2) Back pack.
3) Boxing gloves.
4) Both back pack and boxing gloves equipped. (How it should look).
5) Both back pack and boxing gloves equipped. (How it would look).
6) The problem highlighted.

Are there any ways of stopping the graphics from seperate items overlapping? (Bearing in mind that if the boxing glove is set on the layer behind the bag - the right hand glove would just slip behind the bag during the rest of the walk animation, and doing it vice-versa would produce the problem highlighted in fig. 6).

Also;

How does VBGore know which order to layer graphics in?

character rendering is done in a specific order.
I never had probs with it rendering in a different order than I wrote it.

You can reorder the layering, but like Zanval said, vbGORE will render the stuff mostly order, depending on the direction you are moving. You'll just have to make each hand a different layer.

Though your problem is a bit unique since you are "wrapping" objects around body parts. If this is the approach you want to take, you'd be best off splitting up the body into multiple layers (arms, legs, body + head). That way, to put on the gloves, you just render it immediately after the arms. In this example, you render (first to last):

- Left arm
- Left glove
- Left leg
- Torso/head
- Backpack
- Right leg
- Right arm
- Right glove

Good thinking, Batman.

That actually neatly leads onto an idea I [stole]had[/stole] for a robot game.

You start off as a floating microchip, and slowly assemble yourself from different found arms and legs. The system you propose helps me with the 'wrapping' and could also introduce a nice dimension to things; certain accidents/attacks could see the player loose an arm - which in turn impedes his abilities, so he is forced to seek out a robotic replacement arm/ peg-leg or something.