Use Shape as Texture

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2014

  @totebo yes it should be possible using RenderTarget, to render any Sprite hierarchy as a texture and use it like that

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• amaximov Member

  March 2014

  You could make a shape and use RenderTarget to convert it to texture, and then do whatever you want with it. Maybe that would work?

  http://intoitgames.com/
  
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Into-It+Games
  
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• keszegh Member

  March 2014

  if you are unfamiliar with rendertarget, you may be interested in a detailed tutorial (shameless self-advertisement):
  http://www.indiedb.com/tutorials/clipping-in-gideros-with-rendertarget

  Longtitle Productions, creator of
  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• totebo Member

  March 2014

  Awesome guys, this is exactly what I meant. Thanks for all the replies!

  My Gideros games: www.totebo.com

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  March 2014

  You need to watch out as I think there is a bug with memory allocation with the current render target. It depends on your scale method but you can use a lot more memory than you intend. I set the scale to none, allocate all the render targets (I can draw them later) then set the scaling back to the set method to fix the issue. The problem is that this will look bad during a game (that's why I do it all at the beginning). This makes using it to do clipping a bit hit and miss. As far as I know the powers that be are aware of the issue so I'm sure it will be fixed soon.
  

  Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!).
  https://deluxepixel.com

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