LibGdx drawing weird behaviour

Question

I am finding strange behaviour while rendering TextureRegions in my game, only when pausing it. I am making a game for Android, in Java with LibGdx.

When I comment out the line "drawLevelPaused()" everything seems to work fine, both running and paused. When it's not commented, everything works fine until I pause the screen, then it draws those two rectangles, but maybe ships are not shown, and if I comment out drawShips() and drawTarget() (just trying) maybe one of the planets disappears, or if I change the order, other things disappear and those that disappeared before now are rendered again. I can't find the way to fix this behaviour

I beg your help, and I hope it's my mistake and not a LibGdx issue. I use OpenGL ES 2.0, stated in AndroidManifest.xml, if it is of any help. Thank you in advance.

My Screen render method(game loop) is as follows:

@Override
public void render(float delta)
{
    Gdx.gl.glClearColor(0.1f, 0.1f, 0.1f, 1);
    Gdx.gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);


    controller.update(delta);
    renderer.render();
}

When world state is PAUSED controller.update does nothing at all, there is a switch in it. And renderer.render() is as follows:

public void render()
{
    int worldState=this.world.getWorldState();

    updateCamera();
    spriteBatch.begin();
    drawPlanets();
    drawTarget();
    drawShips();

    if(worldState==World.PAUSED)
    {
        drawLevelPaused();
    }
    else if(worldState==World.LEVEL_WON)
    {
        drawLevelWin();
    }
    spriteBatch.end();
}

And those methods are:

private void updateCamera()
{
    this.offset=world.getCameraOffset();
}

private void drawPlanets()
{
    for(Planet planet : this.world.getPlanets())
    {
        this.spriteBatch.draw(this.textures.getTexture(planet.getTexture()), (planet.getPosition().x - this.offset[0]) * ppuX, (planet.getPosition().y - this.offset[1]) * ppuY);
    }
}

private void drawTarget()
{
    Target target=this.world.getTarget();
    this.spriteBatch.draw(this.textures.getTexture(target.getTexture()), (target.getPosition().x - this.offset[0]) * ppuX, (target.getPosition().y - this.offset[1]) * ppuY);
}

private void drawShips()
{
    for(Ship ship : this.world.getShips())
    {
        this.spriteBatch.draw(this.textures.getTexture(ship.getTexture()), (ship.getPosition().x - this.offset[0]) * ppuX, (ship.getPosition().y - this.offset[1]) * ppuY, ship.getBounds().width*ppuX/2, ship.getBounds().height*ppuY/2, ship.getBounds().width*ppuX, ship.getBounds().height*ppuY, 1.0f, 1.0f, ship.getAngle()-90.0f);
    }

    if(this.world.getStillShipVisibility())
    {
        Ship ship=this.world.getStillShip();
        Arrow arrow=this.world.getArrow();
        this.spriteBatch.draw(this.textures.getTexture(ship.getTexture()), (ship.getPosition().x - this.offset[0]) * ppuX, (ship.getPosition().y - this.offset[1]) * ppuY, ship.getBounds().width*ppuX/2, ship.getBounds().height*ppuY/2, ship.getBounds().width*ppuX, ship.getBounds().height*ppuY, 1f, 1f, ship.getAngle() - 90f);
        this.spriteBatch.draw(this.textures.getTexture(arrow.getTexture()), (ship.getCenter().x - this.offset[0] - arrow.getBounds().width/2) * ppuX, (ship.getCenter().y - this.offset[1]) * ppuY, arrow.getBounds().width*ppuX/2, 0, arrow.getBounds().width*ppuX, arrow.getBounds().height*ppuY, 1f, arrow.getRate(), ship.getAngle() - 90f);

    }
}

private void drawLevelPaused()
{
    this.shapeRenderer.begin(ShapeType.FilledRectangle);
    this.shapeRenderer.setColor(0f, 0f, 0f, 0.8f);

    this.shapeRenderer.filledRect(0, 0, this.width/this.ppuX, PAUSE_MARGIN_HEIGHT/this.ppuY);
    this.shapeRenderer.filledRect(0, (this.height-PAUSE_MARGIN_HEIGHT)/this.ppuY, this.width/this.ppuX, PAUSE_MARGIN_HEIGHT/this.ppuY);

    this.shapeRenderer.end();

    for(Button button : this.world.getPauseButtons())
    {
        this.spriteBatch.draw(this.textures.getTexture(button.getTexture()), (button.getPosition().x - this.offset[0]) * this.ppuX, (button.getPosition().y - this.offset[1]) * this.ppuY);
    }

}

Answer 1

Although that's a little bit late, I'll still try to answer.

From the ShapeRenderer javadoc

"The standard use-pattern looks as follows:"

camera.update();
shapeRenderer.setProjectionMatrix(camera.combined);

shapeRenderer.begin(ShapeType.Line);
shapeRenderer.color(1, 1, 0, 1);
shapeRenderer.line(x, y, x2, y2);
shapeRenderer.rect(x, y, width, height);
shapeRenderer.circle(x, y, radius);
shapeRenderer.end();

Don't forget to call setProjectionMatrix before drawing a ShapeRenderer instance, otherwise you will get unexpected results.

You can get a projection matrix from SpriteBatch.getProjectionMatrix()

Answer 2

I know it's an old post but I ran into this problem today and none of these answers solved it. The correct answer is that you can't use ShapeRenderer between SpriteBatch().begin() and end().

OP's problem would be solved by ending the batch before drawLevelPaused():

public void render()
{
    int worldState=this.world.getWorldState();

    updateCamera();
    spriteBatch.begin();
    drawPlanets();
    drawTarget();
    drawShips();
    spriteBatch.end();

    if(worldState==World.PAUSED)
    {
        drawLevelPaused();
    }
    else if(worldState==World.LEVEL_WON)
    {
        drawLevelWin();
    }
}