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Graphics / Draw a sprite trough a polygon mask

« on: February 18, 2015, 01:00:33 pm »

I have been making a 2D visiblity algorithm by following this tutorial http://simblob.blogspot.se/2012/07/2d-visibility.html

I have managed to create the light vertices and it works fine when I draw it in a single color, but I want to use a shadow map to get "faded" lights like this: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2yrgzlRhAes/maxresdefault.jpg
Mine looks like this now: http://i.imgur.com/wAdRBr9.png where the blue dot is the light center and the green is the lighted area.

How can I "apply" a sprite to this like this one: http://www.alcove-games.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/light.png ?

My code lies here: https://github.com/doodlemeat/bugfree-octo-sansa

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Graphics / Dynamic vertexarray

« on: February 06, 2015, 10:18:15 pm »

For a long time, I have been using static tilemaps, where I only once create and fill my vertexarray with tile information, by using sf::Quads, but say I want to add/remove certain tiles now and then, do I throw away the old array and refills a new? Or should I just append to the vertexarray?
I guess rebuilding the vertexarray often, is not so optimal?