Textured Polygon

[tiby312]

Quick question:
Is it possible to draw a 2d polygon and fill it with a repeating texture with the love2d api? I can't find any methods to do this.

[thelinx]

It's not possible.

[bartbes]

It's not possible.

.. at the moment.

[tiby312]

Okay

I wonder if there could be a way to emulate it though, with the functions we stuck with.

Since the common use for such a thing would be terrain and map making (think soldat), we could just render it to a sprite and then treat it as a sprite.

What if, I somehow drew the polygon in white using the built in functions and onto a black sprite and then used that as an alpha mask or something?

[slime]

You will be able to do stuff with Pixel Effects (fragment shaders) and/or image masks in 0.8.0 to possibly achieve something similar.

[kikito]

well, you could generate it with an imagedata, copying the background image repeatedly on it, and then "erasing out" the pixels outside the polygon by maxing their alpha individually. not pretty or fast, buy feasible at the beginning of each level.

[kraftman]

can't you use a quad and http://love2d.org/wiki/(Image):setWrap

[miko]

It's not possible.

.. at the moment.

...and now it is! Check the attachment, or the source code at GitHub: https://github.com/miko/Love2d-samples/ ... redPolygon

[thelinx]

Well, uh, holy shit!

[Jasoco]

Now, if you can get it to distort, we'd have the makings for creating a 3D engine.