2D game programmers, do you prefer to give each visual a priority value and then sort them at render time, or do you like to hard code the draw order manually (e.g. background.draw(), characters.draw(), foreground.draw(), etc)
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I did a hard coded draw order for my really early GBA/DS projects, then moved to priority values. When I moved to 3DS, I added a 3D depth value to each sprite. Sort is by 3D depth first, priority second. Nicely handles things like particles with 3D movement.
I didn't even think about 3ds... you definitely want a z value of some kind there
