Determine the necessary size for a Texture

[darklord]

Hi!

First of all, awesome job on the AndEngine! I've been lurking here for a while and making some prototypes. I've decided to stick with AndEngine! Perhaps I might one day be proficient enough to return something to the community.

I have a question about the term "Texture" and its use. I've searched the boards and notices that the parameters given when instancing a Texture class is used to register the width and height on the graphics chip. This must always be in ^2.

My question is, which size do I have to use when instancing a texture object? Do I have to look at the image I want to use and base it on those dimensions?

For example:
I have an image of 32x48, then I should instance a Texture with 32x64?
Background with 800 x 600 would then be 1024x1024?

Thanks!

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Hi,

thanks

Exactly. There is a method in the TextureFactory class:

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1. public static Texture createForTextureSourceSize(final ITextureSource pTextureSource, final TextureOptions pTextureOptions) {
2.         final int loadingScreenWidth = pTextureSource.getWidth();
3.         final int loadingScreenHeight = pTextureSource.getHeight();
4.         return new Texture(MathUtils.nextPowerOfTwo(loadingScreenWidth), MathUtils.nextPowerOfTwo(loadingScreenHeight), pTextureOptions);
5. }

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MathUtils.nextPowerOfTwo is the interestign part here.

Hope this helped

Best Regards,
Nicolas

[darklord]

Thanks for the super quick reply!

I've added a small snippet from SpriteExample.java

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1. @Override
2.         public void onLoadResources() {
3.                 this.mTexture = new Texture(64, 32, TextureOptions.BILINEAR);
4.                 this.mFaceTextureRegion = TextureRegionFactory.createFromAsset(this.mTexture, this, "gfx/face_box.png", 0, 0);
5.  
6.                 this.mEngine.getTextureManager().loadTexture(this.mTexture);
7.         }
8.  

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Why do you use 64,32 and not 32, 32? I am asking because the face_box.png is 32x32.

Also, is the BILINEAR TextureOption load-intensive for mobile devices? I'm inclined to always use TextureOption.BILINEAR because of all the different screen resolutions.

Thanks alot!

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Hi,

thanks, those Textures were bigger than necessary
Changeset: http://code.google.com/p/andengineexamp ... bd828e0f3c

Bilinear doesn't introduce more load, but takes longer to draw. The performance impact depends from device to device. Due to the very different screen resolutions and the possibility to use zooming, using Bilinear very often improves visual quality.

Best Regards,
Nicolas

[darklord]

Hi,

thanks, those Textures were bigger than necessary
Changeset: http://code.google.com/p/andengineexamp ... bd828e0f3c

Bilinear doesn't introduce more load, but takes longer to draw. The performance impact depends from device to device. Due to the very different screen resolutions and the possibility to use zooming, using Bilinear very often improves visual quality.

Best Regards,
Nicolas

Hi!
Mentioning my name is way to much credit, but thanks!

Isn't a "Longer drawing time" equal to "more load"?

Anyways.. I saw you also updated your benchmark tests.. but won't this mess up your already collected results?

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Oops... shouldn't have changed the Benchmarks. But as the Texture never in those benchmarks just gets loaded once is the only Texture loaded and never changes it most likely has no effect.

Oh I thought with "load-intensive" you mean it would take longer when initially loaded. So yes, it just takes longer to draw.

Best Regards,
Nicolas

[darklord]

Got it! Thanks for the help!

[isaiah]

So if using the createForTextureSourceSize function in TextureFactory class how do we specify the ITextureSource variable that is supposed to pull the info from the texture? There doesnt seem a way to actually instantiate a ITextureSource variable.

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Hi isaiah,

So if using the createForTextureSourceSize function in TextureFactory class how do we specify the ITextureSource variable that is supposed to pull the info from the texture? There doesnt seem a way to actually instantiate a ITextureSource variable.

ITextureSource is an interface that has a couple of implementation, like i.e. AssetTextureSource

Best Regards,
Nicolas