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What are the criteria for dividing an image file when loading it into a SPRITE array. It seems to be more intelligent than just chopping the screen into equal divisions. Does it recognise white space and/or objects? SPRITE "cards" LOAD "cards.png",14,4 seems to pick out just the cards.

Thanks

Andy Smith.

No, SPRITE LOAD just splits the sprite sheet into the specified amount of raws and columns.

Thanks Mr K.

So that I can understand this better, can you tell me why;

X=0!Y=0!W=1366!H=129*A
SPRITE n$ SCAN X,Y, W,H
SPRITE n$ SAVE "cards4.png"
SPRITE S$ LOAD "cards4.png",13,A

gives the same result when A=1, a single suit, as when A=4. N$ is a simple image consisting of 13 cards across by 4 suits down. S$ picks up 13 spades but nothing else. I can’t understand this.

Thanks

Andy.

Is card4.png file available?

Attached

This code: works exactly as expected: it shows a sequence of 13*4 cards of all 4 suits.

Maybe it’s my fault then but:

- you have used 0 which I assume is a single sprite in which case I don’t really understand the significance of the 13,4
- I wanted a named sprite array N$ with 52 separate elements which I could display separately in a FOR loop

I do appreciate the help - I’m learning a lot

In the code above 0 is a sprite name. It could be "MySpriteName" or anything else instead of "0". And 0 was used without quotes because BASIC will convert number 0 into name "0" automatically. So, this is equivalent to The sprite name does not indicate or affect the number of sprite frames inside the sprite.

You can look at example "Sprites/every frame.txt" to see how multi-frame sprites work.

Many thanks.

I really appreciate the tuition.

Look in the programs section for more stuff about cards.