Facebook instant profile image

darriagada · February 15, 2019, 3:18pm

hi, i have a question, the thing is i have a leaderboard in my project and i need to show the the player photo profile, i know i have the entries from the fbinstant.get_leaderboard_entries, and the url was in the json file, but i dont know how i transform the url in a image.

britzl · February 15, 2019, 10:07pm

You can easily load an image into a gui node:

github.com

defold/extension-fbinstant/blob/master/tictactoe/game/game.gui_script#L39-L47


	if player and player.photo and player.photo ~= "" then
		http.request(player.photo .. "&ignore=" .. os.time(), "GET", function(self, id, response)
			if response.status == 200 then
				local img = image.load(response.response)
				gui.set_texture_data(texture_id, img.width, img.height, "rgb", img.buffer, false)
				gui.set_enabled(photo_node, true)
			end
		end)
	end

GreenArrow · November 17, 2019, 9:54pm

I am making something similar to this (loading facebook profile photos for a leaderboard).

The photos load just fine, but I noticed that new calls to gui.set_new_texture/set_texture increases my draw calls to 2. So for a 10 player leaderboard, this means an additional 20 draw calls, which is too much I think? I am already heavily using layers to lessen the total # of draw calls (generally just 8-12 without leaderboard photos).

Is there a way to make this more efficient? I’ve searched the forum for a better approach, but I haven’t found anything yet.

GreenArrow · November 18, 2019, 12:33pm

Posting it here for those searching the forum who stumble upon the same issue.

Here’s something that looks workable: