Changing texture for one sprite changes it for all sprites using same texture

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#1

As I said in my last post, I said I was experimenting with modding and importing external assets from the drive. To change the sprite’s texture, I have to use resource.set_texture() and the dimensions have to be 2^N by 2^N, same as the current atlas dimensions.

This is fine and all and I can work with it, just the only problem is if I want to change the texture of one of the game object sprites.

Because the code is resource.set_texture(go.get("#sprite", "texture0"), buffer, headers), it changes the shared texture all the sprites use.

I’ve thought of 2 ways to solve the problem but don’t know how to do them or if they would work.

  1. Set the texture to a full picture of all the pictures and animations the sprite will use.

  2. Have different textures generated when object is created and destroyed when deleted.

If there’s a way I can do one of these or if there is another solution, please tell me, thanks.

#2

Correct. If the texture (atlas or tilesource) is used by multiple sprites they will all be affected by the change.

We want this as well. This is the official feature request: https://github.com/defold/defold/issues/5948

#3

Alright… So what should I do about it?

#4

How many different sprite images will you need?

#5

Well it depends, it’s moddable so basically as many as needed. But for an example, let’s say we needed 4 animations with 8 frames, so 32.

#6

And how many different versions should be visible at a time? One solution is to use a tilesource with as many variants as you will be showing at the same time and update the sub regions of the tilesource.

#7

Sorry, I don’t get it, when you say versions do you mean instances? If so then as many as possible. Can you show me an example with tilesources?