Attn Anyone who has published Kindle: Image artifacts on Flip

hotMagic

We had a month of no android publishing because of whatever gamesalad bug was happening, but now we are up again for the new update.
AND...
We are having a constant issue with image flipping. Any image that is flipped horizontally has a small artifact on the side, like a line. These are images that have alpha on them (PNG24). This doesnt happen with iphone, iPad, or preview on Mac.

Has anyone else seen this bug?

jorkos

hi hotMagic, just to confirm on this, is this on the Kindle Fire? I'm not seeing that issue when i test my APK on the device.....but I appreciate the heads up. Please confirm if you get a chance, thanks

hotMagic

@jorkos, yeah this is kindle fire. Im trying to track down why this is happening, since the images are fine and work great on every other platform.

hotMagic

We figured out that this is when you play an animation (using animation action) on an actor that is flipped horizontally. Anyone else see this? It's on all android devices we have tried actually.

beefy_clyro

Yup getting this on my Kindle Fire

hotMagic

Ok I figured out what causes the bug. This is what I wrote to support, but if you have the problem now, here it is:

1 you must scale the character, flip horiz, and animate.
2. This is the part that's harder to track down. Our character has an outer glow in photoshop. If I put a mask on that outer glow to keep it 2px away from the edges, it fixes the artifacts.

This leads me to believe, since it doesn't happen on iOS, that something is happening with however GS stitches together sprite sheets behind the scenes or something (just a crazy guess).