Sorting Layer for MeshRenderer

Unity Engine
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I am just trying to teach myself the features of the 2D game engine and I am running into an issue that I thought I had figured out but right now, I am confused. I found several posts that show a way to programmicatlly choose the sorting layer for a MeshRenderer, but the solutions do not seem to be working for me. I am guessing I am doing something wrong but I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I currently have a script that looks like the following:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class SetMeshRendererSortingLayer : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    private Renderer renderer;

    [SerializeField]
    private string sortingLayerName;

    [SerializeField]
    private int sortingOrder;

    public void Start()
    {
        renderer.sortingLayerName = sortingLayerName;
        renderer.sortingOrder = sortingOrder;
    }
}

I have these in my sorting layers: Default, Foreground

It appears that if I set the Sorting Layer Name to Foreground it doesn’t seem to do anything. Is there something simple I am missing? This appears to be the answer that others have presented and said this is working fine but I haven’t been able to get it to work. I have a ‘ground’ object that is working correctly with the sorting layer only that object’s renderer is a sprite renderer not a mesh renderer. Any help would be appreciated!

Using Unity 5.4.0f3

Thanks!

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I wish they would just expose them in the inspector.

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don’t think this is working anymore, tested it, but I don’t get a different render order.