Just wanted to drop in and say, you are a great teacher and these tutorials are fantastic! I have a fairly decent history with 16 and 32 bit micros - and have created many projects. I've even used screens - but mostly pushing lines of text. Now I understand and know of the existence of these methods in the tft library.. thank you for that! Absolutely brilliant mate! This whole series has been outstanding. Subscribed.
WOW, I tried this for my analog watch many times, only got stupid solutions, working, but bad coding. This video gave me all what I need to programm a analog watch I need. Thanks a lot!
This is brilliant....thank you!! I've been struggling on a similar project with transparencies in sprites and your video showed me how to fix it. Thank you!!
I am just starting with esp32 programming on the S3 display, and your videos are super helpful. Hopefully you have more projects coming up, really looking forward.
Here is the video I was looking for! Your videos really help me a lot for my projects. Is it possible that we can adjust the transparency of an image or pixel projected on the st7789? If possible, we would like to see how this is done in your video. Please keep posting videos!
Thank you again so much for your excellent lesson - I follow every move and are able to replicate your result - this is so satisfying! Can't wait for the next lesson!
The &(ampersand) is a C (C++) pointer to memory, I get that. However the line "back.pushSprite(0,0);" has me confused. I would have thought the coordinates would be more around the pivot. ?? Also, I am trying to find any documentation of all the TFT-SPI functions. The Bodmer github has some (kind'a) in the .h files, but appears not complete and confusing. For example, where did you learn about drawWedgeLine? I know you are smart, but you do not pull things out of ........ I will say thin air. Thank you.
Good content as always. I am going to try and make an artificial horizon (EADI) with a MPU 6050 and rotating sprites as you’ve demonstrated. Many Thanks.
Hi Volos. I have bought a TDisplay and I use Arduino V2. I can't manage to get any picture on the TFT screen (blank screen). I saw that there is an issue with some versions of TFT_eSPI by Bodmer. I found a old topic on the arduino forums with the same issue and it seems that one needed the version 2.4.71 to make the board word correctly. The current versions is 2.5.0. My issue is that the older versions available are 2.4.61 ; 2.4.72 and 2.4.79 Are you aware ot that issue and how do one resolve it?
@@VolosProjects Thanks. I found out my issue. It was not sofware related. It's a hardware failure. The screen goes black if I hold it by a specific area. I need to presson the screen to make the picture come back but it's very random. 😒 I have no luck with chinese products.
good tutorial, simple understanding, I've got a question Can we put needle sprite fill and draw, also background circle in SETUP loop, and leave only angle increment and needle.pushRotate() in the main loop? (I haven't tried the code yet.)
Excellent!! Thank you for doing these. very informative and I'm just starting to dabble with it. One question. How would you make a gradient gauge? Say for temperature going from Cold (blue) to normal (green) to hot (yellow and red) in a circle? Would you need to calculate the colors on the fly or maybe just doing a JPEG and using it as the background?
Hello sir. Great job. I enjoy your projects. Have you considered creating an artificial horizon project using spites? I'd like to create a working display on a 2 or 3 inch screen for my grandson who recently became a commercial pilot. I've struggled with the coding to create the display and pivot the background with roll and pitch. Thanks for your great tutorials.
This tutorial was very easy to follow, but you failed to explain why it would blink if you erased the sprite with tft.fillscreen(TFT_BLACK) rather than drawing another sprite as the background. Also, maybe you should have showed it blink. I assume there’s some sort of double buffering that’s going on, and all drawing happens on the hidden screen buffer. Then some command triggers a swap buffers after everything has been drawn. It would be nice if you explained this and told us which command is swapping the buffers. And if there is no double buffer, how is it avoiding blinking?
love your tutorials! thank you so much!! do you know if it is possible to rotate a .bmp stored in SPIFFS - or is there a way to use a .bmp as a sprite??
Hi I have been using an SCD4X CO2/temp/humidity sensor from sensirion with a T-display-S3 displaying data in the form of three ring meters (TFT eSPI) everything works fine with my computer (USB connected) but when I use the t-display plugged to an usb adapteur the screen remains black. After investigation it looks like there is a ledc initialisation error. As the CO2 sensor is working only on I2C pins 43 and 44 I believe that we may have a conflict between I2C and the display. I am not very good in programming. The fact that it works with my computer and not pluged in a wall socket seems to be very strange. Any idea would be appreciated. Regards.
Thank you so much for your videos. I'm excited to learn more about this T-S3 device! It's been so hard to find updated reliable information on it. I'd love to see how you can add an 8 or 16 bit IO Expander - if you're taking requests ;) I still haven't found out where the SCL/SDA pins are or even if there are any default interrupt pins I can use to pass back from the expander! Anyway - I'm off to buy you a coffee! Love your videos!
Hi thank you for your videos, do you have any ring gauge example? it's hard to find a good video or tutorial to build a ring gauge to measure speed or temperature.
Hello, do you have any plans on using the LVGL library? It offers great UI and even has an editor called SquareLine studio, it created the UI code automatically
Hi! Is it possible to make a clock using .jpg image frames in a Lilygo T-Display S3? I have some nice .jpg numbers image frames and I'd like to use them to build a clock. Is one of your tutorials able to explain the process? If not, could you make a sample one to be downloaded from Github? I pay you a nice coffee! Thanks!
I really appreciate this video - nicely done, very informative. Your approach is intuitive. However, now I am struggling to change the coordinates of the commands to adapt to a bigger TFT - and really got lost. A few extra words about the parameters along the line when you entered them would have made this vid a real burner.
New with the M5Dial.. How would i modify this code to get it woking on M5Dial? I'm still confused - but on a higher level🙄Probably something obvious i guess.
I am trying to find the right pins used for i2c, but the ones I tried so far cause the serial port to give an error dump... Is there a special setting in the IDE drop-down menu to turn on i2c functionality?
when I look for the function drawWegdeLine, it does not exist in the library, is there any other option, I am trying to make the needles of the compass.
Is it possible to use both translate and rotate for sprites? I tried to use translate and rotate on a single sprite. However, i could not make. Thank you for your videos.
I find your videos very helpful. It would be very nice to see a video of you working with TFT displays on esp-idf platform. Do you code on esp-idf or only on Arduino?
I tried following along using my M5StickC Plus-2 and the simple code bricked my device. It took a while to figure out how to unbrick it, but I bricked it again double-checking the code. I've got a T-Display-S3 on order. That said, I have a project that I want to use the M5StickC for (special IR control), so I'm hoping I can sort out what's happening.
hi, I tried to rotate a second picture on a picture. That works, but I can't move the rotation point from the middle with "setPivot". it always revolves around the center of the display. only the point of the image around which it rotates changes.
@@VolosProjects tft.setPivot(45, 110); in Setup and in loop zeigerSprite.setPivot(22,110);. I have both in the program, pointerSprite.setPivot(22,110); changes the rotation point in the image but not the rotation point on the display. at tft.setPivot(45, 110); unfortunately nothing changes when the values are changed
can you show how to use drawString? I have a problem where i can manipulate a number with a encoder and increase it but when i decrease it then the last number is still visible on the screen, when it changes from for example 10 to 9. I would like to do something like drawString(number, 0, 0, 2) + (" ") but that obviously doesnt work.
@@BlondieHappyGuy I actually tried this before reading your post and it finally worked with pretty much the same effort. I can now get compiled code on it. I think it just didn't have anything loaded - like they missed that step at the factory, or it was corrupt. In any case, it is working now. They need better tech writers.
This is perfect, Im making a speed gauges with a moving needle on a round display and a GPS module for my and my friends mopeds. This will combined many of your tutorials that you have released lately. Does anybody know of a good esp32 and SPI screen emulator so I can test my code while Im waiting for the parts to arrive? Future plans for the display is also to show measured speed from hall-sensor and RPM from a capacitive sensor (wire) turned around the spark plug wire.
@@VolosProjects we are building a ttgo portable console and making a specific game that is will load. We believe you can be the lead programmer. I've sent you a coffee with my contact info on Kofi
I always like your tutorials. I tried the compas code. I get a warning while compiling for the TTGO LoRa32 OLED: "TOUCH_CS pin not defined", it uploads and works OK (a part is missing on the right because of the lower resolution of course). I also get that warning in this tutorial: th-cam.com/video/osAOdmZuvDc/w-d-xo.html (I'm trying the battery power indicator, but the screen remains dark), and haven't been able to figure out what to do to fix it. Maybe you can?
@@VolosProjects Hi, I reinstalled the board and all examples seem to be working fine. The "TOUCH_CS pin not defined" warning keeps coming up and I can't determine where it comes from.
Your channel is a treasure trove of knowledge, Volos. I just signed up as a Patreon patron. Thanks for your clear explanations.
I just bought a few more boards because you inspire me to make things!
Another great video!
haha, never enougth boards.
Another super useful project!
I used this on my previous YT project.
Thanks for this content!
Just wanted to drop in and say, you are a great teacher and these tutorials are fantastic! I have a fairly decent history with 16 and 32 bit micros - and have created many projects. I've even used screens - but mostly pushing lines of text. Now I understand and know of the existence of these methods in the tft library.. thank you for that! Absolutely brilliant mate! This whole series has been outstanding. Subscribed.
Thank you Aaron. Your comment is great motivation. Thank you.
WOW, I tried this for my analog watch many times, only got stupid solutions, working, but bad coding. This video gave me all what I need to programm a analog watch I need. Thanks a lot!
Tnx, I am glad you finded your solution.
This is brilliant....thank you!! I've been struggling on a similar project with transparencies in sprites and your video showed me how to fix it. Thank you!!
Thank you :)
Thanks for this can not wait to try this out
Thank you! Love your step-by-step build up of the full code! Really helps understanding how to go about it!
I am just starting with esp32 programming on the S3 display, and your videos are super helpful. Hopefully you have more projects coming up, really looking forward.
I want to thank you for making these videos and explaining them so well ! Liked, Subscribed and bought you a coffee! Keep up the good work!
Thank you, comments like this makes me happy. Thank you for coffee also.
Your sprite tutorials are absolutely brilliant!
Thank you, and thank you for coffee
Great tutorial! Reading the API is one thing but sample code makes it clearer, thanks
Excellent...your training ability is superb. THANKS.
Great video.. really appreciate how you build code in steps which reveals the problems and how to fix it. Thanks!!
Useful and very clearly explained, thank you!
Nice and clear. Thanks for the great video and walk through of creating. I need to look more at the functions available in the sprite library.
Great tutorial and such talent, I hope many will leave you good feedback and comments for such a great video and sharing your work. Love this!
Thank you, i hope the will :)
Great video. Very precise and very clear. Hope you keep on doing such tutorials regularly.
Excellent, not too hard to follow but very educational for me - thanks!
Thanks for your guidance.
Love the content.
Thank you for coffees.
Here is the video I was looking for! Your videos really help me a lot for my projects. Is it possible that we can adjust the transparency of an image or pixel projected on the st7789? If possible, we would like to see how this is done in your video. Please keep posting videos!
Thank you again so much for your excellent lesson - I follow every move and are able to replicate your result - this is so satisfying! Can't wait for the next lesson!
Great video, easy to follow and learn in the way
Thank you for this video, 🙏. I really appreciate it .
Great tutorial, Thanks for sharing
The &(ampersand) is a C (C++) pointer to memory, I get that. However the line "back.pushSprite(0,0);" has me confused. I would have thought the coordinates would be more around the pivot. ?? Also, I am trying to find any documentation of all the TFT-SPI functions. The Bodmer github has some (kind'a) in the .h files, but appears not complete and confusing. For example, where did you learn about drawWedgeLine? I know you are smart, but you do not pull things out of ........ I will say thin air. Thank you.
amazing job! thank you
This is great ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Regards, RJM
Thank you Rene, i am happye you found something useful for yourself.
I learned a lot! Thank you!
thanks for this tutorial, i was wondering could you move lines 19 to 24 of the last shots to the setup() section?
Good content as always. I am going to try and make an artificial horizon (EADI) with a MPU 6050 and rotating sprites as you’ve demonstrated. Many Thanks.
Hi Volos. I have bought a TDisplay and I use Arduino V2. I can't manage to get any picture on the TFT screen (blank screen). I saw that there is an issue with some versions of TFT_eSPI by Bodmer. I found a old topic on the arduino forums with the same issue and it seems that one needed the version 2.4.71 to make the board word correctly. The current versions is 2.5.0. My issue is that the older versions available are 2.4.61 ; 2.4.72 and 2.4.79
Are you aware ot that issue and how do one resolve it?
I dont know what is version of library, you need to use modified version of library lilygo provided th-cam.com/video/gpyeMjM9cOU/w-d-xo.html
@@VolosProjects Thanks. I found out my issue. It was not sofware related. It's a hardware failure. The screen goes black if I hold it by a specific area. I need to presson the screen to make the picture come back but it's very random. 😒 I have no luck with chinese products.
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good tutorial, simple understanding, I've got a question Can we put needle sprite fill and draw, also background circle in SETUP loop, and leave only angle increment and needle.pushRotate() in the main loop?
(I haven't tried the code yet.)
Very useful. Thank you.
thanks for this video
brilliant video. very interesting :)
Excellent!! Thank you for doing these. very informative and I'm just starting to dabble with it. One question. How would you make a gradient gauge? Say for temperature going from Cold (blue) to normal (green) to hot (yellow and red) in a circle? Would you need to calculate the colors on the fly or maybe just doing a JPEG and using it as the background?
Excelente! 😃👍
Hello sir. Great job. I enjoy your projects. Have you considered creating an artificial horizon project using spites? I'd like to create a working display on a 2 or 3 inch screen for my grandson who recently became a commercial pilot. I've struggled with the coding to create the display and pivot the background with roll and pitch.
Thanks for your great tutorials.
Thank you.
This tutorial was very easy to follow, but you failed to explain why it would blink if you erased the sprite with tft.fillscreen(TFT_BLACK) rather than drawing another sprite as the background. Also, maybe you should have showed it blink.
I assume there’s some sort of double buffering that’s going on, and all drawing happens on the hidden screen buffer. Then some command triggers a swap buffers after everything has been drawn. It would be nice if you explained this and told us which command is swapping the buffers. And if there is no double buffer, how is it avoiding blinking?
Fantastic again my friend.
Thanks for sharing
great tutorial, thank you! a question: how do I push rotated sprite to a specified location? something like pushRotated(x, y, angle, &background)
love your tutorials! thank you so much!!
do you know if it is possible to rotate a .bmp stored in SPIFFS - or is there a way to use a .bmp as a sprite??
Hi I have been using an SCD4X CO2/temp/humidity sensor from sensirion with a T-display-S3 displaying data in the form of three ring meters (TFT eSPI) everything works fine with my computer (USB connected) but when I use the t-display plugged to an usb adapteur the screen remains black. After investigation it looks like there is a ledc initialisation error. As the CO2 sensor is working only on I2C pins 43 and 44 I believe that we may have a conflict between I2C and the display. I am not very good in programming. The fact that it works with my computer and not pluged in a wall socket seems to be very strange. Any idea would be appreciated. Regards.
Thank you so much for your videos. I'm excited to learn more about this T-S3 device!
It's been so hard to find updated reliable information on it. I'd love to see how you can add an 8 or 16 bit IO Expander - if you're taking requests ;) I still haven't found out where the SCL/SDA pins are or even if there are any default interrupt pins I can use to pass back from the expander! Anyway - I'm off to buy you a coffee! Love your videos!
Thank you Blaine, on esp32 any pins can be scl or sda, all pins can be used as interupts. Tnx for coffee 😀
@@VolosProjects Oh ! Wow. Fantastic. No wonder I couldn't find anything... LOL Thanks again!
very excellent I wish you could explain the rest of the steps
Hi thank you for your videos, do you have any ring gauge example? it's hard to find a good video or tutorial to build a ring gauge to measure speed or temperature.
The tft library has some dark colour defined as TFT_TRANSPARENT. You could use that if you need black in your sprite.
Surely you shouldn't build your sprites in the loop? Build them one time then use them in the loop.
Hi, can I use this code to make an dashboard rotating 360° with an gyroscope ? thanks for your videos.
Hello, do you have any plans on using the LVGL library? It offers great UI and even has an editor called SquareLine studio, it created the UI code automatically
Before a sprite is pushed to the sreen, I would like to rotate it about 30 degrees before I draw the features onto it. How?
Hi! Is it possible to make a clock using .jpg image frames in a Lilygo T-Display S3? I have some nice .jpg numbers image frames and I'd like to use them to build a clock. Is one of your tutorials able to explain the process? If not, could you make a sample one to be downloaded from Github? I pay you a nice coffee! Thanks!
I really appreciate this video - nicely done, very informative. Your approach is intuitive. However, now I am struggling to change the coordinates of the commands to adapt to a bigger TFT - and really got lost. A few extra words about the parameters along the line when you entered them would have made this vid a real burner.
Awesome. Subscribing 🙂
Super helpful
Kind of disappointed you didn't show the compass part.
Also, is there a way to define 3 pivot points? I want to draw a 3-axis aircraft trim indicator.
wonderful project. grüße aus Deutschland
I noticed you pushed the sprite to a position, then removed the positioning command. How do you redefine the position of the sprite?
New with the M5Dial..
How would i modify this code to get it woking on M5Dial? I'm still confused - but on a higher level🙄Probably something obvious i guess.
I am trying to find the right pins used for i2c, but the ones I tried so far cause the serial port to give an error dump...
Is there a special setting in the IDE drop-down menu to turn on i2c functionality?
when I look for the function drawWegdeLine, it does not exist in the library, is there any other option, I am trying to make the needles of the compass.
@@santiagobermudez7290 you probqbly have wrong library, do you use library from lilygo rep
Is it possible to use both translate and rotate for sprites? I tried to use translate and rotate on a single sprite. However, i could not make. Thank you for your videos.
I find your videos very helpful. It would be very nice to see a video of you working with TFT displays on esp-idf platform. Do you code on esp-idf or only on Arduino?
Sorry, only arduino
Nice tutorial. Could you put all the sprite drawing in setup and leave only push in the loop?
Write the code according to the video, but the screen does not display. Not sure what the problem is?😅
I tried following along using my M5StickC Plus-2 and the simple code bricked my device. It took a while to figure out how to unbrick it, but I bricked it again double-checking the code. I've got a T-Display-S3 on order. That said, I have a project that I want to use the M5StickC for (special IR control), so I'm hoping I can sort out what's happening.
Hm, thease are two diferent boards, this tutorial will not work for m5stick.
What versiom of m5stuck cpkus you have, old or new? M5stick have diferent sprite aproach
@@VolosProjects The version giving me fits is the Plus2. I have the regular Plus (1.1) as well.
great job
example on t-rgb round display would be perfectly helpfull.......
hi, I tried to rotate a second picture on a picture. That works, but I can't move the rotation point from the middle with "setPivot". it always revolves around the center of the display. only the point of the image around which it rotates changes.
You used sprite.setPivot or tft.setPivot
@@VolosProjects tft.setPivot(45, 110); in Setup and in loop zeigerSprite.setPivot(22,110);. I have both in the program, pointerSprite.setPivot(22,110); changes the rotation point in the image but not the rotation point on the display. at tft.setPivot(45, 110); unfortunately nothing changes when the values are changed
@@svencz1089 first, thank you for coffe, please, send me your whole code on arduino.b2016 gmail.com , tomoraow iw will check it and try to fix it
@@VolosProjects ok thx.
can you show how to use drawString? I have a problem where i can manipulate a number with a encoder and increase it but when i decrease it then the last number is still visible on the screen, when it changes from for example 10 to 9. I would like to do something like drawString(number, 0, 0, 2) + (" ") but that obviously doesnt work.
tft.drawString(String(number)+" ",0,0,2);
@@VolosProjects thank you, i will try this 😊
@@VolosProjects yep worked :)
Any project on vedio transmission and reception via Lora modules
sir good day, sir can you make a stopwatch with wireless stop/start button with this lilygo t-display s3
I ordered one from them but it came dead. Solid green LED and a solid red LED. Sometimes won't even power on.
@@BlondieHappyGuy I actually tried this before reading your post and it finally worked with pretty much the same effort. I can now get compiled code on it.
I think it just didn't have anything loaded - like they missed that step at the factory, or it was corrupt. In any case, it is working now.
They need better tech writers.
This is perfect, Im making a speed gauges with a moving needle on a round display and a GPS module for my and my friends mopeds.
This will combined many of your tutorials that you have released lately.
Does anybody know of a good esp32 and SPI screen emulator so I can test my code while Im waiting for the parts to arrive?
Future plans for the display is also to show measured speed from hall-sensor and RPM from a capacitive sensor (wire) turned around the spark plug wire.
Thank you, i wish that there is simulator but for now i think there is no such a software. Tnx again.
Please project ESP S3 Internet radio with new display.
Thanks for your all interesting things.
Hey Volos, I just found your chanel and need some guidance with a project game I'm working on
Hello, how can i help you?
@@VolosProjects we are building a ttgo portable console and making a specific game that is will load. We believe you can be the lead programmer. I've sent you a coffee with my contact info on Kofi
Is there a Discord server that supports TFT_eSPI?
Cool video, as always, look at your email, I sent you a cool future project with the T-display
sorry, i will check it right now
I always like your tutorials. I tried the compas code. I get a warning while compiling for the TTGO LoRa32 OLED:
"TOUCH_CS pin not defined", it uploads and works OK (a part is missing on the right because of the lower resolution of course). I also get that warning in this tutorial: th-cam.com/video/osAOdmZuvDc/w-d-xo.html (I'm trying the battery power indicator, but the screen remains dark), and haven't been able to figure out what to do to fix it. Maybe you can?
@@2flying4fun hm, this is not easy to uploar to older board, ttgo can handle sprite this bug becouse lack of PSRAM
You just need to install all libreries properly, it will fix all errors
Did you try reinstall your board, are library examples working?
@@VolosProjects Hi,
I reinstalled the board and all examples seem to be working fine.
The "TOUCH_CS pin not defined" warning keeps coming up and I can't determine where it comes from.
@@2flying4fun if is only warning dont worry
You can make a Roulette game with this….
You really need to edit for time. This is really boring watching code upload over and over.