Textures that repeat...

SinisterSoft

You can add a texture that repeats:

local texture = Texture.new("image.png", true, {wrap = Texture.REPEAT})

And make a bit map that points to that object, but how do you use this in practice? Do you just change the width/height of the bitmap to see the repeated pattern? If so how?

hgvyas123

I think it can be used with shape only like this

http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/1635/wrap-texture-repeat/p1

ar2rsawseen

Yep
basically Shape only

SinisterSoft

Shame.

OZApps

@SinisterSoft, but you can render the Shape to a bitmap.

ar2rsawseen

@SinisterSoft what exactly did you have in mind?

SinisterSoft

Got this to work:

tSea=Texture.new("sea.png",false,{wrap=Texture.REPEAT})
tBigSea=TextureRegion.new(tSea,0,0,1023,1023)
seaLayer=Bitmap.new(tBigSea)
seaLayer:setAnchorPoint(0.5,0.5)
seaLayer:setPosition(width/2,height/2)
seaLayer:setScale(0.57)
stage:addChild(seaLayer)


Now I'm adding a semi transparent version above it to the real map and my game should have a nice animated sea. If it works...

ar2rsawseen

wow, clever

SinisterSoft

Didn't work quite how I wanted. I can still repeat the texture. I tested it with a size of few thousand by a few thousand on an old phone and it drew it correctly. But the was I did my map originally means I can't have one over the other without drawing two of the huge water sprites at different phases. So I have the sea on the map transparent with the sea texture underneath in a slow sin/cos loop. looks ok.

makaveiljojo

That's interesting. I like it

SinisterSoft

@makaveiljojo If you take a look at the sea on the map (after pressing start) in https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sinistersoft.martians
then you will see it scrolling next to (under) the land. If you like it then give it 5* in a review.

OZApps

@sinisterSoft, for those that do not have an Android, how about putting up a video of the same, it would be easier and explanatory too.

SinisterSoft

Here it is.... look at 13 seconds to 18 seconds in - look at the sea.

SinisterSoft

The video on Facebook is clearer:

https://www.facebook.com/appcenter/w-r-w-m

(14 to 20 seconds in)