repeating textures with uv

I guess a few experiments would suffice, but someone else might already know.

can you make a tiled background type repeating texture on a sprite using uv distortion

without having to double up 2 vertexes at the same point?

If the texture is a power of two, you could try using a 1x1 mesh and the top right, bottom right and bottom left UV coordinates having values > 1. That's effectively what Tiled Background does with power-of-two images, but it doesn't work with other sized textures.

Hmm... so we can make a sprite with power-of-two image behave like a tiled background, with added bonus of animations and other features sprite has over tiledbackground object?

If so example please!

thx ashley

doesn't seem to be working ashley

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1013446/tilee.cap

no then?

Oh, it isn't set to tile, it's set to repeat the last row of pixels... I'll have a look at changing that.

Haven't posted in quite a bit, but I figure this cause is worth championing. I don't think most people fully appreciate what this change will allow us to do.

It would essentially be the Tiled Background object, except that it can:

- Be animated

- Be in any polygonal shape (instead of the standard square/rectangle)

- Have the image stretchable/skewable in any way

- Have other patterns beside checkerboard

- Fully support the Z axis!

Very much looking forward to seeing this implemented.

Not to mention rotation, something tile-bg cant do.

^ Yep, exactly.

I also forgot mipmapping . And before anyone argues that noone would ever use it, believe me, I would (in fact my current project needs it).

yeah, I totally would

it would really change the graphical possibilities of my current game project

Any word on this yet?

I've just found out that using multiple sprites to make a z height map wont really work. 3d sorting gives a slight difference between the tiles, so you can actually see between the tiles, even if they are right next to each other. So what I really need is a tileable repeating texture... on a sprite, cause one huge sprite is a big nono.