Tilemap won't render when stage.displayList is set

[bkjohnson]

I've been trying to get my tilemap to render underneath all of the sprites but it always comes out on top no matter what z-index I set the DisplayGroup to be. Also, once I set stage.displayList = new PIXI.DisplayList(); the tilemap won't render at all.

Here is a code snippet:

        // Basic pixi-tilemap example from https://github.com/pixijs/pixi-tilemap
        var loader = new PIXI.loaders.Loader();
        loader.add('atlas', 'basic/atlas.json');
        loader.load(function(loader, resources) {
            //third parameter is "true" ONLY IF YOUR TILES ARE SQUARES
            var tilemap = new PIXI.tilemap.CompositeRectTileLayer(0, [resources['atlas_image'].texture], true);
                var size = 32;
                // bah, im too lazy, i just want to specify filenames from atlas
                for (var i=0;i<7;i++)
                    for (var j=0;j<7;j++) {
                        tilemap.addFrame("grass.png", i*size, j*size);
                        if (i%2==1 && j%2==1)
                            tilemap.addFrame("tough.png", i*size, j*size);
                    }

            var ground =  new PIXI.DisplayGroup(0, false)
            var groundContainer = new PIXI.Container()
            groundContainer.displayGroup = ground
            groundContainer.addChild(tilemap)
            stage.addChild(groundContainer)
        })

Here I even tried adding a tilemap to a container and then adding the container to the stage but it still either

• Won't render at all if stage.displayList is set, or
• Renders on top of everything if stage.displayList is not set

Any idea as to why this is happening? I'm pretty sure I've followed the examples correctly but of course I could be missing something.

[ivanpopelyshev]

there's special flag for those kind of containers , its in readme

tilemap.displayFlag = PIXI.DISPLAY_FLAG.MANUAL_CONTAINER;

Also, i recommend new version: https://github.com/pixijs/pixi-display/tree/layers , it has awesome demo: http://pixijs.github.io/examples/#/layers/lighting.js API differs from old pixi-display.

[bkjohnson]

Thank you so much, I'm glad this was such an easy fix!! Also thank you for putting so much work into PIXI - as I've been learning I've been seeing your name all over the place giving answers and writing helpful modules.