Repeating background in cocos2d has black edges!

Question

I am attempting to setup a tiled/repeating background for my iPhone app.

The code \"works\" in that the background is repeating like it should be but I seem to have

Answer 1

Textures should always be in power of two... like 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024.

Try resizing the image to 256x256 or 128x128.

Answer 2

I've also ran across this rather common problem with not being able to tile arbitrarily-sized textures in Cocos2d-iPhone, so I put together a simple TiledSprite class to tile/clip a texture or subtexture to any width/height.

Jump right to the source code here (use at will):

https://gist.github.com/Nolithius/6694990

Or have a look at a usage sample, screenshot, and commentary in this brief article:

http://www.nolithius.com/game-development/cocos2d-iphone-repeating-sprite

Best of luck!