Anyone familiar with HLSL?

Basically Im wondering if theres a way to sneak an effect into the spritebatch without setting it's SortMode to Immediate.. the reason is that I have a bunch of different sprites all being drawn at different layer depths.. using immediate oubviously screws up the layer depth.. I tried using a seperate spritebatch for each sprite group, but doing that essentially ignores the layer depth property altogether. I cant simply call the seperate spritebatches in the proper 'order', as some of my layer depth logic is conditional.

Any ideas?

thanks.

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give each sprite a layer index, then in one spritebatch, loop through all the sprites and only draw layer one, then loop again for layer 2, etc.

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Il give that a shot, thanks for the reply!

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