Hey i'm working with SFML right now, and upon finishing the tutorials i still do not know how to give a shape a texture or image, and not just a solid color/outline.
The only thing i know can take an image is a sprite, but thats WAY to simple, as it only allows you to render rectangular images in a rectangluar way!
What are the tecniques for rendering images onto shapes, and ONLY inside the shape? It would be great if some of you could provide some resources or SFML-specific stuff!
SFML has been updated since this question was originally answered and you can now add textures to shapes easily. The shape class has the setTexture() and setTextureRect() methods. setTexture() takes a pointer to an sf::Texture. See the documentation.
Sf::Texture texture;
if (!texture.loadFromFile("mytexture.png"))
{
std::cerr << "failed to load";
}
sf::RectangleShape myRect{ sf::Vector2f(width, height) };
myRect.setTexture(&texture);
myRect.setTextureRect(sf::IntRect( x, y, width, height ));