encompass-cs-docs/content/pong/draw_paddle/_index.md

title	date	weight
Drawing a Paddle	2019-05-23T11:02:45-07:00	10

It's nice to see something on screen right away when we start making a game, so let's make that happen.

In a 2D game, Encompass needs to know which order that things should draw in.

Encompass draws things back to front using integer layers. A negative value means farther in the back. A positive value means farther in the front. So an object on layer 10 will draw on top of an object on layer -10.

We'll need two things to get a paddle drawing on screen: A DrawComponent and an OrderedRenderer.

Let's start with the Component.