TileMap layer zindex is not applied to Entity Factory Actors

[YJDoc2]

Hey, wanted to confirm if this is intended behavior or not before opening the issue on the plugin repo.

So I have created a tilemap using Tiled, and have 3 tile layers + 1 object layer on which I have an object with class as Player. I tried the following ways -

• move the object layer on top of all other layers
• give the zindex property explicitly to object layer with value of 10
• give z index property to each of the layer with object layer =10, other layers 5,4,3
• try zindex value type as int and as string

I was using the class along with entityClassNameFactories in the TiledResource to create the player instance on the tilemap at runtime.

I expected in all three cases that the player sprite will be drawn on top of all other tiles. However in all three cases the sprite was somewhere between the layers. I arranged the layers as (ignore my bad naming :p)

In all the cases, the player sprite would always be drawn between layer 1 and other two layers (so boundaries and layer 2 were always above). I didn't see any correlation between layer ids and this, or layer creation time and this.

When finally I manually set the z value in the super call of Player to 10, it worked and player got drawn on top.

I expect that if the plugin is picking up the z values for layers based on position in tiled, or even after manually assigning them, it should set the z value on factory actors accordingly. Wanted to confirm if this was a bug, or you expect the user to manually set the z index using FactoryProps.

Attaching the tilemap and the tmx file, you might need to manually update the image location in tmx if it is not picked up correctly.

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[YJDoc2]

Hey, how does one develop the tiled plugin itself? I cloned the repo, and my intention was I can put the cloned path as dependency in my main project ; but that did not work out. When I finally managed to solve that somehow, another error popped up saying there might be two versions of Excalibur loaded, and it would not show any tilemap. The I did a hack, and soft-linked the node_modules of my project to the cloned repo, and that somehow made everything render, but then when I tried to add console.log and/or logger.info in the tiled code, just to see if it is working, that did not show up anywhere.

I'm probably doing all this wrong, there might be a proper way to develop, but in that repo, it only mentions the npm commands for dev server, which launches the example project. Is the normal flow to add a new project there and update code till that works, or use some existing example project there for testing , or something else? Anyone who might be reading and has worked on that plugin, can you tell me what is the standard dev-flow for that?

Thanks :)