UV something (filling the layout with a sprite)

The trick is:

i want to fill the layout with a the same sprite. Preety much like with tiled background. But instead of hand-placing them all i would like to know the method for this to be done X number of times in grid order.

I do remember there was a method of doing this with UV command or something and that i heard about it from Newt. Sadly i cannot find it on forums.

Can someone please aid me on this?

kudos! :)

Here is an example that makes a sprite a 11x11 gird of it's image over it's area:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples6/uvtiled.cap

If you want it to cover the screen just make the sprite the size of the screen.

Loop the window whidth divided by the sprite width times the window height divided by the sprite height and create a copy on the chosen position, that is if your hotspot is in the top left corner and i understand you correctly-

Here is an example that makes a sprite a 11x11 gird of it's image over it's area:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples6/uvtiled.cap

If you want it to cover the screen just make the sprite the size of the screen.

hmmm it actualy works but now i remembered that i havent said that i want each of that sprite instance to have a diffrent random animation frame :(

So UV wont help here?

Well, in that case just use two for cycles, one within the other for x and y to place your sprites. That way you can set the animations and whatever else you like.

I recently used this to place 10240 sprites in a grid formation, no problem at all (except for a certain performance drop).