[Probably unsolvable]Render an entity in the background

[Villfuk02]

I created a new entity which you can walk on, but when the player is standing on the upper half, the entity is rendered in front of the player. I want it to always be rendered behind the player, like belts do. How can i do that?

[Bilka]

Use and entity that can have the render layer set (trivial-smoke, smoke-with-trigger, car, simple-entity, simple-entity-with-owner, simple-entity-with-force, corpse, electric-energy-interface), and set the render layer: https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/RenderLayer

[Villfuk02]

So I guess for assembling-machine it is not possible. Is there any workaround?

[eradicator]

So I guess for assembling-machine it is not possible. Is there any workaround?

Invisible assembling machine with graphic-only entity on top that does support layer?

[darkfrei]

Make big sprites with alpha gap and shift this picture higher/ lower.

[eradicator]

Make big sprites with alpha gap and shift this picture higher/ lower.

Interesting hack. Waste precious video memory though, so should be used carefully.

[Villfuk02]

Make big sprites with alpha gap and shift this picture higher/ lower.

I tried making the picture double the height with the upper half transparent and then shifting it back by 2 tiles.
(it is a part of animation)

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width = 128,
height = 256,
frame_count = 1,
line_length = 1,
shift = {0.0, -2.0},

It seems to make no difference just as I thought. Am I doing something wrong?