How to render a 2D “world” sprite on top of 3D

I’m talking about a sprite that has a position inside the scene. It should always be rendered on top of anything that is 3D.

Using the UI system would work, but I would have to manually update the sprite’s position every frame according to camera movement etc.

Using StaticSprite2D means that it rotates along with the node it is attached to, which I don’t want. I only want it to move with the node. And I can’t be 100% sure that the sprite is rendered on top of anything 3D, unless I raise the y position substantially, but that brings its own problems with a perspective camera.

Is there an easy solution?

So… like a Doom sprite?

I’m not sure. I’m doing a top-down RTS where when I select units a 2d health bar is shown for each unit, for example.

I think you are talking about billboard right?

Yes, I forgot about billboard!
Sadly, there is still no option to render it on top of 3d. Of course I can offset the position, but with a perspective camera one can clearly see how much it is raised if the camera is not directly above it.

Edit: I tried using a material that alters the renderorder value to something larger than the deafult 128, but it still won’t render on top of a 3d model.

Create a specific material & technique combination for your sprites. Set the depth-test in your technique’s passes to always so that they’ll always pass the depth test, that will guarantee that their fragments pass Z-test. Leave shadow related passes alone, it won’t matter there.

Render order still matters, leave it as something larger so that they’ll render later than other things.

Setting depthtest to always did the trick, thanks!