How to move the player through the layers in a 2d game?

Question

C++ / C#

Hello, I need to do layer navigation in Unity.
For example, like in Hyper Light Drifter, where I could go behind this column.

At the moment I'm trying to do this:
The higher the Y, the smaller the layer and vice versa. The only problem is that I don't know how to change the layer parameters in the code itself.
But if I'm stupid and you can do better than the way I'm trying (I'll have to scatter NPCs and map elements in layers), then I'll be glad to see how to do it right.

Answer 1

Sprite Renderer has a Sorting Layer option