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Graphics / Re: Loading large textures

« on: October 22, 2020, 01:00:09 am »

I just tried a 2048x2048 texture and there was no improvement.  I did consider loading the textures when the game starts but there are seasons in the game which require different textures so that's four different map textures which is a lot of textures to keep in memory.  I want a system where it only loads the textures needed as the player walks.

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Graphics / Loading large textures

« on: October 21, 2020, 03:18:54 am »

Hi everyone,

So I have a large map background which I have divided up into 3200x3200 images.  What I want to do is load these textures at runtime as the player moves.

I have tried to load them in threads but doing loadFromFile causes a lag.  Is there a better way to do this?

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Graphics / Re: I cant build SFML in visual studio code 2019

« on: April 24, 2020, 10:36:13 am »

Why are you trying to build it?  Why use visual studio code?  Why not Visual Studio?

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Graphics / Help with Day/Night Cycle

« on: April 24, 2020, 09:51:19 am »

What I have done so far is to create a RenderTexture and colored it black.  Then I have drawn the attached white circle onto it.  Then in the game I drew it onto the main RenderTexture with sf::BlendMultiply.    The result is attached and it is half way to what I want.  I want to be able to turn the opacity of the black down so I can see everything else but I don't know how to do that.  I tried using a shader but with no success.