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There would be no confusion if people read the error message carefully.
I would like to suggest that first mobile platform be Win8 and it's WinRT for making Metro UI apps. I know that most likely it's nearly as much effort as Android or any other OS, but Win8 is gonna hit the mobile devices hard.
Well, the difference between triangulation and triangle strips here is, in triangulation, you break them into many triangles, 3 triangles mean 3 shapes, however, triangle strip is considered a single shape, since it's basically just a list of points which are "converted" into triangles when being drawn (in SolidShaper).
After loading triangle strips, what you get is a list of points, then, you can decide to convert it into a list of triangles to be added to Box2D as shapes, or if you're just drawing it, you can just convert them in your draw functions.
However, if it's a triangulated polygon, it will be loaded as a list of triangles instead, the original information of it being from the same shape is lost the moment you triangulate it.
Also, once you triangulate a polygon, the triangles no longer share any vertices, since they are already separate shapes. Meaning that, triangulation is an irreversible process, even if I introduce a grouping system, and you can move the triangulated polygon, they will still not share any vertices.
Triangle strips are useful for creating “concave” shapes for collision detection/physics engines that cannot detect intersection/collision of concave shapes.
First: When I'm drawing a shape, what happens when things overlap?
The last shape drawn or selected will be at the top, use right click to select if you want to select anything below that, this will first select the topmost, then the one below that, and so on.
That's called triangulation.
It's possible to break polygons into triangles with triangulation, but not into triangle strip.
Since SolidShaper does not have any object-like feature to group shapes together, if I included a triangulation feature, it will break it down to triangles, but then you cannot move them as a set anymore, you'll end up moving each triangle individually.
With that in mind, I would suggest you implement the triangulation in your game itself instead.
I'm pretty sure Nexus's Thor library can do that, you may want to take a look at that:
http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=7329.0
On the other hand, if I do find a good way to implement triangulation (probably by introducing a grouping feature or so), I will definitely implement it.
I thought it became easier
What do you have to do in addition at the moment?
My point was that sometimes you can't have the admin rights.
