New functions to influence entity sorting

For various purposes, especially the creation of special effects, I would like to put entities at the end of the (C_LINK?) list so they get rendered last (without re-creating them every frame). Earlier today I needed to have an entity to be rendered first which I then had to workaround by doing a different view NOENT+genius/parent approach.

I assume corresponding functions would not get used by a lot of people but I think they should not be too hard to implement - maybe I can even do it myself by manipulating the C_LINK stuff or would that conflict with other intern stuff?

Thanks.

Dunno if you're talking about the same thing, but I've always been thinking there should be some property to influence the order of functions executing. I hate using proc_late for many functions, because in the end, I don't know which one is the last to be executed

I guess it could be done with a 'layer' type of property, like in a panel, or something...

Yeah i support both of your ideas!
Also superku, have you tried layer_sort for giving the entities the correct order? May work if the function itself is agnostic to what input it gets...

@EpsiloN, yeah it would be great in many cases, but because of the performance cost of "wait(1);"-s, I use no independent loops in high quantity, instead I call them from a main game loop in every frame, resulting in significantly improved performance, beside perfectly managed running order.

I started doing exactly the same thing recently, without even noticing I'm doing it too bad it took me 15 years to learn it. (By the way, I think it was partly influenced by a Java android game programming tutorial I read recently...)

Anyway, having an option for execution order is still a good thing. You cant put EVERY function in one while loop