Textured triangle/quad --- needed badly. (Enterprise?)

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#1

I am building a series of apps whereby the user needs to warp an image using user-definable corner coordinates.

Currently, Corona has no method for doing this, of course. In OpenGL it’s very simple, so I don’t think it would be terribly difficult to extend Corona images to facilitate this.

My only alternative at present is (ugh)…send the image to a back-end server for processing, then ship the baked image back to the client. This will be slow and bandwidth-intensive, making the user experience very poor.

It seems to me that the cool applications for arbitrarily distorted images are many, Many pseudo-3D UI effects, Star Wars-style scrolling text, etc.

What are my options for accomplishing this via Corona? I’m very comfortable with Corona, and (of course), I’m already a customer…don’t really want to switch to a different SDK for this.

Thanks in advance!

-John [import]uid: 193702 topic_id: 33099 reply_id: 333099[/import]

#2

Unfortunately, currently Corona cannot do this without implementing something under the hood using Enterprise. It is in the road map as ‘2.5d image transformations’ I believe and you’re not the only one wanting this.

Of course, the challenge for Corona Labs is basically to get it working on all Android platforms without significant performance issues and on iOS. But still, would be awesome to have that functionality. [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 33099 reply_id: 131464[/import]

#3

Once something is added via Enterprise, do you then forever need to build your app using Xcode?

It seems an excellent way to make Corona more useful and increase adoption is to allow 3rd parties to create extensions at this low level and offer them as LUA-wrapped components for other developers.

What’s involved in getting started with Enterprise? I need this feature very, very badly.

-John
[import]uid: 193702 topic_id: 33099 reply_id: 131482[/import]

#4

Unfortunately, currently Corona cannot do this without implementing something under the hood using Enterprise. It is in the road map as ‘2.5d image transformations’ I believe and you’re not the only one wanting this.

Of course, the challenge for Corona Labs is basically to get it working on all Android platforms without significant performance issues and on iOS. But still, would be awesome to have that functionality. [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 33099 reply_id: 131464[/import]

#5

Once something is added via Enterprise, do you then forever need to build your app using Xcode?

It seems an excellent way to make Corona more useful and increase adoption is to allow 3rd parties to create extensions at this low level and offer them as LUA-wrapped components for other developers.

What’s involved in getting started with Enterprise? I need this feature very, very badly.

-John
[import]uid: 193702 topic_id: 33099 reply_id: 131482[/import]