cosmic background with blinking stars

[complyue]

this adds blinking stars to the empty background out of map regions. currently they are only seen with rotating camera mode and driving at map edges, it's possible to dig some holes on the map for unreachable regions as to make the stars more visible.

[complyue]

made big holes on snow2 map, really ugly tbh, but for demonstration purpose atm.

[agateau]

It certainly looks better with a starfield than with the plain black background, but I still think it breaks the immersion, sorry.

[complyue]

sure, i'm not satisfied with current result too, maybe until some artist can redesign the map edges for outer space look&feel.

what's your next plan with rotating camera when driving at map edges? simply enlarging the map tiles toward unreachable area seems a simple & sufficient solution, then no black regions could be seen anymore.

[agateau]

what's your next plan with rotating camera when driving at map edges? simply enlarging the map tiles toward unreachable area seems a simple & sufficient solution, then no black regions could be seen anymore.

This is indeed the simplest solution. The only issue is deciding how many extra columns and rows are required.

I had in mind a smarter approach which would consist in having the engine fill the gaps by repeating the borders of the map (these numbers can be defined in each map as custom tmx map properties) but I am not sure if libgdx map rendering API can be bent to do that. I need to experiment with it.

[agateau]

It looks like repeating borders is not that complicated after all, with a little duplication of libgdx code...

Here is what I got so far. I increased the viewport size to make the repeating borders easy to view.