CCTileMapAtlas | gaps | artifacts | black lines | flicker

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CCTileMapAtlas | gaps | artifacts | black lines | flicker | v0.99.0rc

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Started 1 month ago by psi
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psi
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The gap is back...

After hours(!!) of fighting these pesky little black lines in my CCTilemapAtlas in the last release of cocos2d (0.9 beta2) I upgraded to the latest release (0.99 rc) yesterday and my beloved friends are back. *bitesHisTongue*

I followed all the tips and tricks I could find:
```
// 2D Projection:
[[CCDirector sharedDirector] setProjection:CCDirectorProjection2D];

// Alias textures
[myTilemap.texture setAliasTexParameters];

// Disable subpixel rendering in ccConfig.h
#define CC_COCOSNODE_RENDER_SUBPIXEL 0
#define CC_SPRITESHEET_RENDER_SUBPIXEL 0
```
With these tricks the gaps were gone in 0.9b2 but now they are back. I noticed it's again the subpixel rendering problem, as the black lines appear only if I use a CCMoveTo action, where I can not control the placement while the tilemap moves - or is this possible?! To clarify, I can place the tilemap at integer value coordinates - everything is fine (no gaps), but when moving around with an action those gaps show up again.

The tip regarding the "spritesheet-artifact-fixer.py" did also not solve my problems. I got the same flicker but a ruined texture. IMHO it does not work. It just doubles border pixels which looks simply BAD if you have to use tiles that perfectly align by pixel.

I really do not want to go back to 0.9b2 because the performance increased by 5-10 FPS for my game with the new release, so if anyone has another tip / trick to solve this problem I would be really grateful!

Thanks in advance for any help,
Markus
Posted 1 month ago #
riq
Key Master

Could you open a bug attaching the code to reproduce the problem ?
The tests/TileMapTest.m seems to work OK without artifacts.

Posted 1 month ago #
psi
Member

Will do so today. Hope to create a test project that shows the issue properly.

Posted 1 month ago #
psi
Member
After trying a lot of different things in the last 10+ hours I have not been able to reproduce the problem in another project yet. It seems to have to do with my setup of the scene, as a simple Tilemap added to a scene, using the same tilemap GFX does not produce flicker at all - no matter what I set the projection, alias, subpixel settings to, I mentioned above.

The setup of the nodes in my real project is not quite trivial (lots of parent/child nodes...), so I will have to continue to build up the same structures in my test-app (called "mindTheGap" ;) until the gaps show up again.

In the meantime I came up with a little hack that "solves" my problem: In CCIntervalAction.m in line 535 I round the x and y position - and *boom* gaps/artifacts/lines are gone:
```
-(void) update: (ccTime) t
{
	[target setPosition: ccp( round(startPosition.x + delta.x * t ), round(startPosition.y + delta.y * t ) )]; //HACK: set to rounded pos to avoid gaps in tilemaps when scrolling around
}
```
The only thing is, I'm not quite comfortable with messing around in the cocos2d code. It gets frequently updated, so I will always have to change this when updating. I'm also not sure if this change might have other negative side-effects in the future - well, we'll see.

What do you think?

Best,
Markus
Posted 1 month ago #
riq
Key Master

You can create your own action, like MoveRounded, so you don't need to modify the cocos2d sources.

Posted 1 month ago #
Neo-Dragon
Member

I also have this problem with my map.
Only when scrolling along the x axis the lines appear.
I tried all the tips and nothing works.
When moving up and down, it's fine.

I tried adding in the tip/hack above in CCIntervalAction, but I got an error saying "shortens value from 64 bit to 32 bit"

Any suggestions?

Posted 1 month ago #

I decided to use a category to work-around this issue. Create a class called "CCMoveTo+RoundedUpdate" and add this code:

CCMoveTo+RoundedUpdate.h

//
//  CCMoveTo+RoundedUpdate.h
//
//	Category to rounded move any object and avoid gaps in tilemap.
//  --> Overrides "update" code from CCIntervalAction.m
//
//  Created by Markus Barta on 09.02.10.
//
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import "cocos2d.h"
@interface CCMoveTo (RoundedUpdate)
@end

CCMoveTo+RoundedUpdate.m

//
//  CCMoveTo+RoundedUpdate.m
//
//  Created by Markus Barta on 09.02.10.
//
#import "CCMoveTo+RoundedUpdate.h"

@implementation CCMoveTo (RoundedUpdate)
-(void) update: (ccTime) t
{
	//NSLog(@"Using category CCMoveTo+RoundedUpdate for movement -> rounded setPosition!");
	[target setPosition: ccp( round(startPosition.x + delta.x * t ), round(startPosition.y + delta.y * t ) )]; //Setting to a rounded pos avoids gaps in tilemap!
}
@end

Just add those two files to your project and compile. The gaps should be gone :)

CCTileMapAtlas | gaps | artifacts | black lines | flicker | v0.99.0rc

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