Re: [pygame] Re: manually cutting a picture

[Noah Kantrowitz <kantrn@xxxxxxx>]

For normal jigsaw-ish shapes (read: highly irregular) I would bounce  
the images through Cairo. If all you need is a simple, repeating  
cutout you may be able to do it in pure SDL, but it would be tricky.

--Noah

On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Michael George wrote:

> Do you want to cut them into curvy non-recangular pieces or are  
> rectangular pieces good enough?  I'm not sure how to do non- 
> rectangular pieces although it's an interesting puzzle :)  I think  
> you'd need to use the surfarray module.
>
> --Mike
>
> Marcus von Appen wrote:
> > On, Tue Nov 06, 2007, Joseph king wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I have a kinda hard question.... i am trying to build a jigsaw  
> > > game with
> > > python, i would like to give the option for people to create there  
> > > own
> > > puzzle piece.... does anyone know how to accomplish this it is  
> > > becoming
> > > increasingly difficult for me
> >
> > Create a surface with the full image, then cut it into single  
> > pieces using
> > the Surface.blit() method with the area argument:
> >
> > fullimage = pygame.image.load ("image.png")
> > piece1 = pygame.Surface ((50, 50))
> > piece1.blit (fullimage, (0, 0), (20, 20, 50, 50))
> >
> > You now have blitted the fullimage area located at 20, 20 (from the
> > topleft) with a width and height of 50 to piece1.
> >
> > Regards
> > Marcus