Cocos2d v3 repeat texture

Question

I was wondering how I should repeat a texture in Cocos2d 3. I have a background and I want to “tile” it across the screen. I have found this which is using ccTexParams with GL_REPEAT but those have been made private in version 3 of cocos.

I have found another solution which can be found here it creates a loop and positions a new child node based on the size of the texture and the size you want. But is that performant? Because when you have a 1px wide background texture and want to repeat that on a iPad retina, you have more than 2000 child nodes.

What is the best way to repeat a texture.

Answer 1

Well since there was no method for repeating without having a POT texture I made something of my own which takes care of it.

Might be useful for someone who has this same question. The code can be found here on Github.

Answer 2

CCTexture2D class has setTexParameters: method to set repeat mode. Also pay attention that the texture must have power-of-two width and height, otherwise repeating mode will be disabled.