Re: [pygame] transform.chop and image cropping

[DR0ID <dr0id@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

see below:

David Gowers schrieb:
> On 9/2/07, Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > There's also another artist technique where empty space is
> > deliberately used as a way of being able to set an image hotspot (the
> > origin of the image). Basically no file format gives you a way to set
> > a hotspot, but if the image loader assumes the center of the image is
> > the hotspot then the artist can render images to take advantage of
> > that. For it to work the image loader needs to be aware of the meaning
> > of the empty space.
> >     
>
> wow that's useful, I hadn't thought of that.
>
>   

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You could store the hotspot in the file name e.g.:

hero_200_300.png

That would mean you have the hotspot at 200/300. Of course you would 
have to parse the name and all images need that name convention. You can 
get the image dimensions in pygame using get_size(), but you know that 
;-). You could encode even more information into the filename if you 
want, but then it will be more complex to parse.

~DR0ID