Masking in Java

[thesti]

hi,

i'm trying to create a game. it's a monopoly like game
it needs masking because i need to draw the players on top of the board. while the player's image is not just square.

how to do this in java?
is that right that i can use png files to make this easy?

[JosAH]

hi,

i'm trying to create a game. it's a monopoly like game
it needs masking because i need to draw the players on top of the board. while the player's image is not just square.

how to do this in java?
is that right that i can use png files to make this easy?

I don't understand the phrase "while the player's image is not just square", it might
be a little language problem, but yes you can draw and change the image to be
drawn at any time you want. btw, not just .png files but also .jpeg (.jpg) and .gif
images can be drawn.

kind regards,

Jos

[BigDaddyLH]

hi,

i'm trying to create a game. it's a monopoly like game
it needs masking because i need to draw the players on top of the board. while the player's image is not just square.

how to do this in java?
is that right that i can use png files to make this easy?

Images with transparency (from PNG or GIF files) can simply be drawn. If you want to do clipping (masking) then Graphics/Graphics2D has several methods to support this: clip, clipRect, getClip, setClip. Take the 2D tutoiral: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/index.html

[thesti]

hi,

thank you for the answers.
so i can do it either with an image with transparency or with the clipping methods in Java.

i'm learning both of the options now.
maybe i'll ask question again later if i'm stucked.

thank you