Polygon primitive

[red]

Hi,

could someone provide example of polygon class implementation, I don't know how to draw a line in one color and the filling in another one (and alpha channel)

Thanks

[IFL]

I'm currently working on this I might not finish today, but it'll be soon. Are you wanting the polygon to be able to change shape once it has been created?

[red]

I'm currently working on this I might not finish today, but it'll be soon. Are you wanting the polygon to be able to change shape once it has been created?

That would be great, will you share your polygon implementation?

[recastrodiaz]

I have a working GLES2 implementation and an example using it in my github forks :
https://github.com/recastrodiaz/AndEngine
https://github.com/recastrodiaz/AndEngi ... ample.java
It is not fully tested and it lacks some features, but does render convex and non convex polygons.
Let me know what you think and what features you might need. Any help is welcome.

[IFL]

Thanks, recastrodiaz!

[nazgee]

Work perfectly for me. Well... Almost

I use it for physics debug draw, and accidentaly I tried to use it to draw a line (two vertices) - it crashed badly But this probably should not be considered as a bug- two vertices polygon is a "non-standard" one

[recastrodiaz]

In fact when you create a polygon with less that 3 vertices or a non simple polygon it will certainly crash. I changed the code this afternoon so an update of the vertices won't force the renderer to crash if the new vertices can't be properly triangulated.
I also think I should use/implement a better triangulation algorithm.

[jgibbs]

Very useful class. Is there any way to put a texture overlay onto this shape? I'd like to use this to draw the ground base of my game but it would look a lot better if I could apply a simple repeating texture to it rather than just using a static color.

[recastrodiaz]

Not yet, but I think it could be done by doing some UV mapping magic, though you would need to provide a triangular mesh (and avoid using the current triangulation algorithm), texture coordinates and of course a texture. Maybe, what you are trying to do could be done otherwise ?

[jgibbs]

I've played quite a bit with texture mapping objects in 3D, in particular using 3D programs to generate the meshes and to push out the files and textures coords to read into a viewer, but I've never needed to not triangulate the textures. It's always been a 1-1 mapping of the textures to triangles.

I'm wondering if what I'm trying to do might be quite simple, I've just never done it so I'm looking to others for their knowledge before I crack open the low level stuff. If you don't give UV coordinates, or just give UV coords of, say, a simple face, would that achieve what I'm attempting here. All I'm after is the ability to have a tile repeated across the face. The anchor points are not important to me, only the scale.

I haven't looked into what the polygon class creates as far as the final GL mesh so this may not work if it's going to need to be painted onto separate triangle instances, but if it's a one-shot draw of a vertex buffer I'm hoping that it might be achievable. It would be a great way to 'wallpaper' any arbitrary shaped object.

Just to illustrate what I'm trying to achieve here...

This would be a terrain, read from a description file and generated as a single polygon object:

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This might be the triangulation internally of the polygon, obviously out of my control:

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This would be a texture tile that is designed to repeat:

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The texture repeated across the terrain to be clipped:

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And the final desired goal:

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