NinePatch native support

WaveEngine 2.4.0 includes official native support for NinePatch textures (also known as 9-slice). To know more about what that kind of textures is, read our previous post about it.

As this version allows you to add textures and mark them as “NinePatchType: FromTexture”. This option will be automatically selected if your texture has the extension “*.9.png”.

When this mode is selected, the exporter will extract the stretch and content regions from the texture and remove them from the final asset. Keep it in mind if you need power of two textures (e.g., if your final texture must be 256×256, the source image size must be 258×258)

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Nine Patch in WaveEngine

What is Nine-Patch?

A Nine-Patch is an image format that adds extra information on an image file, defining what parts of it should be scaled (and which are not) when the image is rendered in a larger or smaller size. This technique was introduced in the Android SDK and is very useful for creating UI components like buttons, panels, containers, etc.

Using this technique, you can define the background of multiples UI components like panels or buttons with the same image asset. You can also create large panels with a reduced image asset so is very useful for optimizing your project resources.

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