I need an object to be tiled AND have multiple animations.

Hi all, time again for me to ask for the "impossible".

I use Sprite Animations as "Theme" for my game.. it's simple to have a global variable and easily change the whole UI by setting all sprite animations to the corresponding theme.

However, one of the UI objects needs to be tiled.

Approach 1:

Use a TiledBackground and "Load image from URI"

Problem: I wish to store the images in a prepared sprite like - "Load from URI(Sprite.CurrentImageAsURI)"

Approach 2:

Use a Sprite and trick it to tile the image instead of stretching it.

Problem: Option does not seem to exist.

There are probably other nice ways to change theme functionality, by using families or arrays, but I really like the stucture with animations.

Thanks for your time.

> Problem: I wish to store the images in a prepared sprite like - "Load from URI(Sprite.CurrentImageAsURI)"

Why'd you like to store it in a prepared sprite? Is there a reason you cannot use an ajax request to load the image? If you only want to load the image once, you can store it inside a binary data object and load it from there.

And for changing a variable to change the theme, that's also possible with this approach. You can request a URL with ajax rather than a file, that you can point to the local resources by string and just add the global variable in the name. So you'd request "stringsub("./tiledfile{0}.png", globalVar)

This would request e.g. tiledfile1.png or tiledfile2.png or tiledfileVolcanotheme.png, etc.

I wouldn't attempt approach 2.

This is great!

Nice touch with the new stringsub.

Thanx for the help!