On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Aaron Maupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That will only work if you rotate the bitmap 45 degrees. (Or some > multiple of 45 degrees ;) > You may be right about particular rotation implementations, but in general taking a tile and rotating it and expecting it tile is neither guaranteed to work at 45 degrees nor is it guaranteed to not work at other angles.
It can still be wrong at 45 degrees if your rotation is antialiased. It can be right at odd angles if the edges pixels are not antialiased or resampled. It can be wrong if the algorithm for determining what pixels to draw is inconsistent. It can be right if the algorithm draws everywhere the rotated tile has > 50% pixel coverage. In OpenGL land that means you need either a GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_x of GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE_EXT or to use GL_NEAREST filtering. In Pygame land it means you'll get seams with rotozoom, and rotate may work as long as it's algorithm is properly consistent (although it will be ugly nearest neighbor on the inside)
