hello i like to make video games and stuff and also have a good time on the computer. look @ my pinned for some of the video games and things. sometimes i am horny on @squishfox
you can have a thought like "what if sometimes platforms were wider" and you have two options
draw a wider platform
basically reimplement CSS3 border-image and painstakingly figure out all the fucking vertices you need for a mesh of triangles in order to make the original sprite 16 pixels wider ✨automatically✨
naturally i have done the latter
stuff like this is what makes me just use 9-slice instinctively lmao
Ah, is this a case of like, writing yur own engine, or something like pygame or PetitComputer that mostly just gives the building blocks?
I've only ever used the higher level engines, lol
yeah this is LÖVE — it will put things on the screen for you but if you have any cleverer ideas about what those things are then that's your problem
I see that stray darker pixel sticking up in the wider platform's shadow like it's an unruly hair
LOL I THOUGHT THAT WAS A SMUDGE ON MY SCREEN WHEN I POSTED THIS BUT IT TURNS OUT I SET THE SLICE MARGINS SLIGHTLY WRONG
I once had to implement 9slice in a shader for dumb reasons, and that implementation is shipping in PS3 and PS4 system software. It is not particularly efficient.
one particular advantage of making a physical mesh is that i can now apply an arbitrary other shader to it
Sometimes I do the latter.
... sometimes I do the former a bunch of times, take a break from a project, come back to it wondering what the hell I was doing, undo everything, and then implement the latter.
