Sprite tearing on 8800GTX

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Vorderman (Posted 2008) [#1]

Can anyone help me with the odd sprite tearing problem - I've posted in the bugs forum but I really need a quick bodge around if anyone knows one : Some of the sprites parented to the camera suffer distortion or tearing when the camera is rotated, other are fine, yet all are identical -

GfK (Posted 2008) [#2]

Always better to put HUD overlays on a separate camera. That way you don't have to worry about rotating it. You then need a two-pass render. One for the main camera, and one for the HUD camera. The HUD Camera needs colour and z-buffer clearing disabled with CameraCLSMode.

Kryzon (Posted 2008) [#3]

Strangely as it is, this never happened to me, thorry. Have you tried manually creating quads? do they show different results?

Rroff (Posted 2008) [#4]

I wouldn't use sprites at all - especially for this - they are slow and potentially error prone.

Mortiis (Posted 2008) [#5]

Use sprite candy

H. T. U. (Posted 2008) [#6]

Did you try my suggestion, has always worked for me.

Stu_ovine (Posted 2008) [#7]

I would suggest sprite candy but as HTU suggests, do a 2 pass render using a second camera.

SLotman (Posted 2008) [#8]

again:try changing camerazoom and camerarange values; it should fix it. If not, just create quads manually, set their zorder to something like -1, set camera mode to 2D and render them. That's how I do it with icons/fonts/whatever, and it work really well, no need for a second camera (or a second render pass).

Vorderman (Posted 2008) [#9]

ok, i'll give that a try, thanks