[java] tile images

It might be easier to have each of the tiles as individual images rather than having them all as one big image. Theres a discussion about tiles vs tilesets floating around the isometric forum if I remember

granted yea it is easier just to use the individual image, it's what I'm doing at the moment. I'm just trying to implement it as a tileset to learn something new, but I'm having trouble finding a way to copy part of an existing image into a new image... any help?

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Original post by deonbotha what I want to do it extract each tile and put it in an Image array,

You've got a couple of options. The first - and probably easiest, as you're already using Images - is to simply crop the image using a CropImageFilter.

The second way is to use an array of BufferedImages instead. The main image (tileset) would be loaded using a BufferedImage, and then you'd use the BufferedImage.getSubimage method to obtain the smaller images and copy them.

Both examples (basic usage) are demonstrated here. There are also other Image resources there that might be of interest.

thanks stormrunner, thats awesome, exactly what I wanted!