In this video I show you why I basically never use Z-index for 2D sorting in Godot, even though it’s what most people do first. The “player is Z-index 10, road is 5, decorations are 7” approach gets super counterintuitive really fast. The moment your project grows and you have dozens of overlapping objects, you end up constantly checking the Inspector and trying to remember numbers instead of actually building your game. What I use instead (and what I recommend you start using right now) is the draw order in the scene hierarchy—Godot works like a photo editor. Godot draws from top to bottom: background first, then road, then player trail, then player, and so on. It’s instantly readable: I can look at the hierarchy and immediately understand what’s on top of what. Then I address the real question: “Okay, but what about runtime spawning?” For vehicles, decorations, coins, etc., I organize them into container nodes (simple Node2D containers) and always add instantiated scenes into the correct container. That way, the sorting stays consistent and intuitive even when objects are spawned during gameplay.