Suggestion: Change node sorting order

[TheSillyDoggo]

Instead of ordering it in the z order of the node it should be the child index so it's in the same order that it should be.

also you can make it an option but that doesn't have to happen

[matcool]

i dont get it

[TheSillyDoggo]

Devtools sorts the nodes by it's z order so it has the lowest z up the top and the highest at the bottom. That makes getting a node by it's index harder

On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, 11:18 am mat, @.***> wrote:

i dont get it

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[Capeling]

so just sort them by their index instead of by z order

[TheSillyDoggo]

That's what I was saying

On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, 12:43 pm Capeling, @.***> wrote:

so just sort them by their index instead of by z order

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[matcool]

there is no node index. the order of nodes during an init function is only temporary, as cocos then sorts the nodes by z order the next frame ish, which is what devtools shows. we dont sort the nodes by z order, we just iterate them by what getChildren() return

[TheSillyDoggo]

Oh I didn't understand mostly because I only use get children in the init functions so that's why

On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, 2:32 pm mat, @.***> wrote:

there is no node index. the order of nodes during an init function is only temporary, as cocos then sorts the nodes by z order the next frame ish, which is what devtools shows. we dont sort the nodes by z order, we just iterate them by what getChildren() return

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