Drawing a non-homogeneous terrain

[darkonaito_]

How would you go about drawing a terrain made up of different materials, hence different texture? Have a sprite for each tile or have a single sprite and changing both it's position and it's texture multiple times?

[eXpl0it3r]

Depends a bit on how non-homogeneous it should be.

In simple terms, you can draw a tile map, where you have one texture with different materials on it, then you insert the map structure as vertices into a VertexArray and draw that with the different matching texture coordinates.

The tutorial has an simple example for that: https://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/2.5/graphics-vertex-array.php#example-tile-map