Author Topic: Skewing (Read 2534 times)

Spodi · « **on:** July 30, 2010, 08:22:55 pm »

In the past, I have added shadows by just skewing the sprite and drawing it black. That is, take the top two points of the rect, shift them over about 50%, halve the height, then draw it black with alpha. Though I just noticed that there is no native way to do this with SFML.

How would one go about accomplishing this in SFML?

Laurent · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2010, 09:18:40 pm »

It's not possible in SFML, but I agree it would be cool to be able to do it. Maybe for SFML 2.

Spodi · « **Reply #2 on:** July 31, 2010, 05:01:30 am »

"Eventually" works just fine for me.

Walker · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2010, 09:41:20 am »

I'm not sure if it's quite the right suggestion, but TurboLento in this thread managed to get a Mode-7 type effect working. Obviously that's not exactly what you're after but a similar approach might be appropriate.

For the record, I think that sprite/image deformation/skewing would be a suitable and useful feature in SFML.