Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this Unity tutorial we're going to look at how to use sorting layers, to make sure everything in a 2D game is rendered in the correct order

This is the sixth video in our series showing how to make a full top down 2D shooter game in Unity.

The playlist for this series can be found here
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Want to follow along? This project is a good starting point
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The background used in this video unfortunately no longer exists. We've created a similar one you can use here
► drive.google.com/file/d/1ACDZNthP0vIpFLBOLvJbI6uIVhM_IEGo/view?usp=sharing

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Introduction - 0:00
Adding the Background - 0:29
Sorting Layer Explanation - 2:11
Creating and Assigning Sorting Layers - 3:28
Summary - 4:56

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