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doominabox1
doominabox1

Reputation: 458

Load only part of an image in pygame?

I can load entire images and work with them easily with 

pygame.image.load("image.png")

but if I only want a tiny portion, I have to load the entire image and crop from there.
Is there a way in pygame to efficiently load only a portion of an image?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9449

Answers (2)

Kirro Smith
Kirro Smith

Reputation: 91

I recommended use DaFluffyPotato's code

def clip(surface, x, y, x_size, y_size): #Get a part of the image
    handle_surface = surface.copy() #Sprite that will get process later
    clipRect = pygame.Rect(x,y,x_size,y_size) #Part of the image
    handle_surface.set_clip(clipRect) #Clip or you can call cropped
    image = surface.subsurface(handle_surface.get_clip()) #Get subsurface
    return image.copy() #Return

His channel https://www.youtube.com/c/DaFluffyPotato

Upvotes: 0

Sachin
Sachin

Reputation: 3664

Load your image

my_image = pygame.image.load("image.png")

Create a new surface

surf = pygame.Surface((X, Y))

X and Y are horizontal and vertical dimensions in px respectively.

Place the image on the surface

surf.blit( my_image, (A, B), (C, D, E, F) )

A and B are the distance from the top left corner. This places the image on the surface A px down and B px left.

C and D are the cropped part of the image from the top left corner. C px down, D px left.

E and F define the image size.

Upvotes: 5

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