Polygon primitive

[recastrodiaz]

I don't think you could easily repeat the texture tiles as in your example. You could either break your terrain in smaller polygons, each mapped to a texture or have a big texture mapped to your polygon terrain which you will "deform" to get more or less the effect you are looking for. Both examples would use the same 3D techniques you're used to.

In any case, you can't yet map a texture to a Polygon, but you're free to help

Speaking of, the polygon class is going to change quite a bit in the days to come, stay tuned.

PS : Sorry for the late response.

Edit: Never mind what I've just said, in fact you could repeat the texture tiles as you suggested by using the gles option GL_REPEAT.

[RealMayo]

GL_REPEAT is only for sprites as well as the entire background of a scene. It is not for filling a polygon
We eagerly await the day that we can fill a polygon with a repeating texture

[recastrodiaz]

I was talking about OpenGL in general, not about andengine itself. Check "Repeating and Clamping Textures" at http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal/theredbook/chapter09.html to get a better idea of what I meant.

[IFL]

Recastrodiaz, if you figure out and share a method of applying a texture (that is not warped or repeated) to a non-static concave polygon, I'll give you a nice present ( ) and include you in credits when appropriate.

[jgibbs]

I was talking about OpenGL in general, not about andengine itself. Check "Repeating and Clamping Textures" at http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal/theredbook/chapter09.html to get a better idea of what I meant.

That's where I was heading with my idea. I started pulling apart the sprite class and merging what I could into the polygon class to get it being textured, but I'm not as familiar with Java as my bread and butter language (c++). I started getting lost bringing the textures and GL draw code into the polygon class. At that point I thought I'd better cast my question out before I wasted too much time on something that might not actually be possible, or that someone else knew better than me.

[recastrodiaz]

I've just pushed an experimental "uvmesh" branch that adds support for textured polygons. Feel free to test it.



@IFL what do you understand by "not warped nor repeated texture".

[RealMayo]

Does it allow for applying a repeating PNG image to the polygon?

[recastrodiaz]

Yes, but you can't control yet where to place the texture "inside" the polygon :
https://github.com/recastrodiaz/AndEngi ... e.java#L68
and
https://github.com/recastrodiaz/AndEngi ... .java#L116

[RealMayo]

So then what is the default behavior of the positioning/placement?

[recastrodiaz]

Random
Not really, For now, I just match the local origin of the polygon with the origin of the texture, flipping and rotating the texture won't do anything either.