I'm using Direct3d to render a simple tile map for an Angband/NetHack type game. I'm using 1 large texture that contains every 32 x 32 tile for the game. I have the map chunked up into 16 x 16 blocks, each block having a vertex buffer with a triangle list to render. My problem is there are obvious seams between the tiles. After disabling any filtering for the texture, the seams are fewer and more random, but they are still there. They appear when you move about the map, zoom in, zoom out etc., and not just on 16x16 chunk boundaries. I have a feeling it has to do with the fact that I have to use float texture coordinates on such a large texture. ( 2048 x 2048 by the way ) Is there something I can do to still use the vertex buffer approach? I'm very new to DirectX but I know I can also copy rectangles from one surface to another. Is there an optimized way of doing that too, like with vertex buffers? Thanks

Problem solved - the seams were not the clear color but the color of the neighboring tile on the texture. I basically did what MJP and adjusted the texture coordinates by half a texel around the tile.

Thanks for the help guys.

Quote:Wow. If you use the same texture for every "chunk," you should consider a single vertex buffer for the entire map.

The reason for the chunks is so I can use frustum culling to only draw the chunks visible on screen.