A tiled Slice 9 mode in GUI nodes

Questions
#1

Hello everyone

How could I get something like a tiled Slice 9 mode in GUI nodes?
Maybe someone has a ready-made example script or any other workaround?

Thanks!

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#2

I’m sorry but we do not support that currently.

#3

I found some discussions here and here, but those solutions seems very tricky.

Okay, I’ll think about how I can work around it. But this feature would be great… :innocent:

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#4

Maybe there is the way to stop the texture to stretch if the node is smaller than its texture? Just cutoff it for example. I think by this way I could make a big tiled texture and just use it.

In practice my task is to use some hand-drawn textures for the UI and stretch the buttons, dialogs and other rects without loss of the hand-drawn details like paper tears or roughness of the pen.

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#5

This is what my graphic designer does too. Is this on the feature list for the future? I would like to use it.

#6

It’s in our backlog somewhere, but not high on the list I’m afraid. Note that we do support “normal” 9-sliced graphics for GUI nodes though.

#7

Is there texture tiling at all (without slicing)? I didn’t see that when skimming the docs.

#8

Just to clarify it a bit (to be sure we understand each other). We don’t have a 9 slice scale for sprites and we don’t have tiling out of the box but it’s possible to write for sprites using shaders.
But we have 9 slice scale for GUI: https://defold.com/manuals/gui-box/?q=9%20slice#slice-9-texturing - could you check it please, maybe this feature would fit for your needs.

#9

Here is what my designer does — this happens to be 3-slice. Both slicing and tiling has to happen. (I think this would probably be GUI rather than a sprite, since you read text with this background.)

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It sounds like there is no easy solution at the moment. (I don’t really want to learn to write shaders just to do an illustrated text-based game.)

BTW, the screen shot is from Xcode; UIImageView handles this just fine (though obviously it is iOS-specific and not terribly helpful for a cross-platform game).

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#10

Created an issue. Like it on the github if you want to see tiled slice-9 in the roadmap 2021 :slight_smile:

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