Libgdx sprite not drawing in browser - java

This is the first time I'm trying to deploy a libgdx game to html but having some difficulties.
On desktop everything works fine, but in browser two of my sprites are not showing up, the rest is fine.
These two sprites should be backgrounds and scrolling why the character moves.
I'm loading my textures in a GameScree class' show method like this:
backgroundTexture = new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("background.png"));
//setting wraping to repeat to achive scrolling background by one texture
backgroundTexture.setWrap(Texture.TextureWrap.Repeat, Texture.TextureWrap.Repeat);
//and I render it like this (I create a Sprite of it)
batch.draw(backgroundSprite.getTexture(),0,0, (int) position ,0, 1280, 720);
By increasing position the background is scrolling which works fine on desktop.
I got errors in chromes console:
[.Offscreen-For-WebGL-00000000071AC350]RENDER WARNING: texture bound to texture unit 0 is not renderable. It maybe non-power-of-2 and have incompatible texture filtering.
Which I don't exactly understand why, how is it incompatible? And also, none of my texture are POT but they are still working.

You should avoid using mipmaps when texture is not power of 2.
backgroundTexture.setFilter(Texture.TextureFilter.Linear, Texture.TextureFilter.Linear);
It's better to use texture is in power of 2 (pixel width and height are some 2n value)

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libGDX rendering TextureRegion renders too much

I want to develop a simple 2D side scrolling game using libGDX.
My world contains many different 64x64 pixel blocks that are drawn by a SpriteBatch using a camera to fit the screen. My 640x640px resource file contains all these images. The block textures are positioned at (0, 0), (0, 64), (64, 0), ... and so on in my resource file.
When my app launches, I load the texture and create many different TextureRegions:
texture = new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("texture.png"));
block = new TextureRegion(texture, 0, 0, 64, 64);
block.flip(false, true);
// continue with the other blocks
Now, when I render my world, everything seems fine. But some blocks (about 10% of my blocks) are drawn as if the TextureRegion's rectangle was positioned wrong - it draws the bottommost pixel row of the above (in the resource texture) block's texture as its topmost pixel row. Most of the blocks are rendered correctly and I checked that I entered the correct position multiple times.
The odd thing is, that when I launch the game on my computer - instead of my android device - the textures are drawn correctly!
When searching for solutions, many people refer to the filter, but neither of both Linear and Nearest works for me. :(
Hopefully, I was able to explain the problem in an accessible way and you have any ideas how to fix that (= how to draw only the texture region that I want to draw)!
Best regards
EDIT: The bug does only appear at certain positions. When I draw two blocks with the same texture at different positions, one of them is drawn correctly and the other is not.. I don't get it....
You should always leave empty space between your images when packing into one texture, because if you use FILTER_LINEAR (which I think is default) for every pixel it will sample from the four nearest pixels. And if your images are without empty pixels padding,for all edge pixels it will get pixels from the neighbor image.
So three options to solve your issue:
Manually add space between images in you texture file
Stop using FILTER_LINEAR (but you will get ugly results if you are not drawing in the native image dimentions e.g. scaling the image)
Use the Libgdx Texture Packer, it has a build it functionality to do just that, when you pack your images

Scaled textures distorted while moving

I create a game in libGDX and have problem with scaling textures, which I have to use because of the different screen resolutions.
When these textures move on screen, there is a distortion. You can see it on the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mo_LFWsuHs
It can be seen well at the markings on boxes.
I tried with TextureFilter.LINEAR and used both Texture and TextureRegion but with no result.
I also read on the Internet that it's a problem with Java - so do I have to change libGDX to other, not Java-based framework?

libGDX - TextureRegion drawing weird when scaled

Having a weird issue.
I have a Texture with four frames of a sprite Animation. Each frame is loaded as a TextureRegion.
Most of the time the Animation play without any issues, but occasionally it will draw too much of the Texture in one frame.
Here's an example of what I mean:
As you can see the UFO has a red bar on the left side of it. That red bar is part of a frame on the outside of the TextureRegion bounds stated in my code. (The red frame is just there to make it easier for me to measure, since there is transparency on all the corners)
Here's the Texture:
In the above sprite sheet the red frame for the slide at the top has the bounds 0, 0, 202, 71. The TextureRegion for the frame of the anim is 1, 1, 200, 69 -- at no point should any of the red frame be displayed, as far as I can tell.
I realise as a workaround I could just set the frame as transparent now that I have the measurements I need, but I'd like to keep the red frame in case I need to take the measurements again later, or replace the sprite images, etc, and really a workaround is just a band-aid whereas I'm hoping to find a proper solution to address the root of the issue -- the fact that it's drawing wrong seems to indicate a larger problem than what exists just in this particular case (eg, in a densely-packed Texture it might draw pixels from a different sprite frame or even a different sprite or a menu image or something like that).
Oh and one last note, in case it's helpful: when the SpriteBatch displays the image it applies a rotation based on the movement of the UFO (tilts to the left when moving left, etc). The glitchy red bars sometimes show up on the top, right, bottom, or left randomly (though most of the time they don't show up at all) however they only seem to show up when the UFO has a rotation of zero. (Again, I realise I could just include a check to see if rotation is 0 and then call the SpriteBatch.draw() method without the rotation figure, but that too would be treating the symptom rather than addressing the root of the problem).
Any thoughts from the learned masters?
Your frames of animation need padding around them to account for rounding error. Put two pixels of clear pixels all around each image. If you use TexturePacker to combine the images into your file, it will automatically add the two pixels of padding by default.
If you name your four images with an underscore-frame number suffix, like myAnimation_0.png, myAnimation_1.png, myAnimation_2.png, and myAnimation_3.png, then when you load your TextureAtlas, it allows you get the animation very easily.
Array<TextureRegion> myAnimationFrames = textureAtlas.findRegions("myAnimation");

Why do textures flicker when camera moves?

I implemented a top view camera which moves with the player, only a bit slower using camera.position.lerp. The problem is that the textures are flashing (flickering) a little because i have scaled my textures. If I use normal size of textures the flickering stops. Does anyone have any ideas on how to move the camera with zoom (or textures scaled - same thing) without getting the textures to flicker (or flash)? I use linear filtering and load every asset from an atlas. I saw this problem on multiple forums, but no answer. I wanted to load higher resolution textures and resize them in code, that's why I am asking this question.
You need to extrude the borders of your sprites in the atlas. The Extrude option tends to be close to the Padding ones.
Most texture packers support that feature and Libgdx will pick that information up from the atlas file straight away.
This way you get to use the filter you want.

LibGDX Scaling and Rendering Sprites from TextureAtlas

I am currently experiencing issues when drawing and scaling sprites.
I am loading my assets from a texture-atlas, which I packed no problem with the LibGDX texture packer gui tool. My texture atlas image currently looks like this.
These images are supposed to be buttons, but as you can see, the image is very small, so when the sprites are loaded, they load a sprite of say, 34x16 pixels. When I render these buttons, on a canvas of 1920x1080, they are much too small. I use sprite.scale(int scale) to scale the sprites, but when I scale them, they appear blurry. What I would like to happen, is when they are scaled, each pixel is scaled proportionally, keeping the pixelated effect on the button, rather than a blurry resized image from a really small texture. I currently render the sprites using sprite.render(SpriteBatch batch). Is this the proper way of rendering a sprite, after they are loaded using atlas.createSprite(String name)? I am new to using sprites, and loading textures from a texture-atlas, so i am wondering if this is the correct way of doing things.
Also, when I initialize my game, I load numerous different Sprite objects from a TextureAtlas. Each sprite holds a texture that will represent a game object, however it is my understanding that you render a sprite using sprite.render(SpriteBatch batch), so therefore I could only use a sprite, loaded from the TextureAtlas for one game object, because I would also have to set the scale, and position of the sprite, as it represents the game object. I am used to loading a Texture, then rendering this texture using batch.render(), at a given position, but I don't see how this is possible if I am using a sprite. Even if I use batch.render(Sprite, x, y), I am unable to scale the sprite properly, because as I mentioned before, I would like to scale the sprite while maintaining a pixelated effect, and even so, using the Sprite.scale() method, this would scale the Sprite object as a whole, making it impossible to use the Sprite's texture multiple times for numerous game objects.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
The code I am currently using to render/load the sprites is as follows:
Loading from TextureAtlas:
public static TextureAtlas atlas = new TextureAtlas(Gdx.files.internal("data/texture/pack/output/pack.pack"));
public static Sprite sprite = atlas.createSprite("buttonUp");
sprite.setScale(10);
Rendering Sprite: GdxGame.WIDTH/HEIGHT are 1920x1080. Though the Desktop window is scaled down from that size. Thus, everything is rendered as if the screen were 1920x1080.
batch = new SpriteBatch();
camera = new OrthographicCamera(GdxGame.WIDTH, GdxGame.HEIGHT);
camera.position.set(GdxGame.WIDTH/2, GdxGame.HEIGHT/2, 0);
camera.setToOrtho(false, GdxGame.WIDTH, GdxGame.HEIGHT);
public void render(float delta){
Gdx.gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
batch.setProjectionMatrix(camera.combined);
batch.begin();
camera.update();
sprite.draw(batch);
batch.end();
}
After further investigation, I have discovered that I can use Sprite.set(Sprite sprite) to make Sprite x a copy of Sprite y, and therefore render each sprite multiple times. However, this does not solve the issue of scaling the sprite. I must emphasize further that when rendering a scaled sprite, the scaling is not done by pixel, meaning that it is blurry. But, when rendering a TextureRegion, like: batch.draw(TextureRegion, x, y, width, height) if the width and height are greater than that of the original texture, it will scale each pixel, rather than blur the whole thing to try and make it look better. The following is an image of the blurriness I am talking about:
Notice how this sprite is scaled to be blurry, even though the original image is small, and pixelated.
What TextureFilter settings are you using in your code or in the texturepacker? Try the "Nearest" filter. If you have set it to "Linear" or alike, it will always take 4 texture pixels (texels) and interpolate them to get the color of the pixel to be drawn.
That might help against the blur, but I am not sure if it will produce exactly that 8-bit look you are aiming for...

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