How do you avoid Tilemaps from covering the UI, and other nodes

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If i put a tilemap into my scene, the UI (Autoloaded), or what ever node is added to the scene tree (via get_tree().get_root().add_child(Object)) Does not show.

How do you avoid this?

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you can set the Z axis to something other than 0(assuming you are on 2D)

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The proper manner would be using a CanvasLayer, and putting your entire UI inside it. That way it'll always be on camera and above everything.

About other nodes, though; the bottom-most node is always rendered first, and the top-most is always rendered last. If you put your TileMap as the top-most node of your root, or even make the root itself a TileMap, other nodes won't be covered.

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