Tile an image with SFML

Question

I have a background image and it's only 256 x 256 when my window is 800 x 600. I'm not sure how to get the image to repeat itself across the whole window. I currently load the image in with:

sf::Texture Bkg;
if(!Bkg.loadFromFile("darkPurple.png"))
{
    return -1;
}

sf::Sprite Sprite;
Sprite.setTexture(Bkg);

and the draw it later with:

window.draw(Bkg);

I tried to use:

texture.setRepeated(true);

but that didn't seem to help.

Thanks!

As a side note, if you're trying to color your background, you don't need a jpg, you can just use this: `window.clear(sf::Color(128,0,128));` provided that "window" is a RenderWindow object. — Dovahkiin, Dec 19 '16 at 00:03

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '14 at 10:42

After you load the image you need to call setReapeted:

    texture.setRepeated(true);

And after that, when load texture in your sprite, set the texture rect to be to your size of screen:

    sprite.setTexture(texture);
    sprite.setTextureRect(sf::IntRect(0,0,800,600);

Tile an image with SFML

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