Isometric occlusion

[jumpjack]

I see that in this example:

https://github.com/jkalkhof/urban-survivor-rpg

the occlusion is made by placing the base of an object in a layer and the remaining part of the object in another layer, and placing the player layer between them.

Is this the only possible method in MelonJS?
I have an existing tile map which I cannot modify, coming from a game where occlusion is obtained by draw order, and big objects are made of tall tiles; for example: the base tile dimension is 24x12, but if I have a wall, it's 24x48 (i.e. 3 tiles tall), so the player can move around the 24x12 base of the big tile, but when it's above the base tile, it's actually hidden behind the 2 remaining vertical subtiles of the wall.

[obiot]

melonJS will actually follow the draworder and renderorder properties as defined in Tiled, while the latter is only for orthogonal maps (if I recall correctly) the former is the one you are looking after.

you can also dynamically change the sort order (which is the draw order) of any container ( like game.world) by using this (it's z by default) :
https://melonjs.github.io/melonJS/docs/melonjs/Container.html#sortOn