Z order

I need to know why the entityorder function does not work. Im setting an animmesh'child entitys to a value of -1 and my 3d dashboard still disappears into walls. Anyone know???

I don't understand what you are doing, what is set to what, and what disapear?

i have a 3d dashboard which stays in front of the camera. with entityorder it is supposed to be drawn in front of everything but isnt. when it gets close to a wall it sinks into it. but if its supposed to be drawn in front it should not disappear. Its 3PS so increasing entityradius to protect it wont work.

maybe posting some example code will help people solve your issue.
from what I have seen, the entityorder command works just fine.

EntityOrder always works fine for me, so I'm guessing you simply did something wrong in code. Probably you think you are setting the dashboard to -1 but in fact, due to some little nitpick in your code, you are not.

speedo=LoadAnimMesh ("jet_data\dash\dash.x",c\camera):
ScaleEntity speedo,.4,.4,.4
EntityFX speedo,1:
If speedo Then
ends=CountChildren(speedo)
For d=1 To ends
chi=GetChild (speedo,d)
EntityOrder chi,-1
Next
MoveEntity speedo,-1.4,-1.0,2
RotateEntity speedo,EntityPitch(c\camera)+26,EntityYaw(c\camera)+180,EntityRoll(c\camera)
EndIf

You are only getting the first level of the hierarchy. Try Masterbeakers function:

http://www.blitzbasic.co.nz/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=796