Thread: Draw part of an image

Hey guys, I'm trying to figure out how to display only a specific part of an image, and can't figure out how to do this the way I need. Using drawImage I know I can display a rectangular part of an image, and I looked into ImageReaderParam and setting the source region, but again that only lets you choose a Rectangle, not a Polygon. I'm trying to display a single Hexagon from a larger .jpg image containing multiple hexes. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

Can you paint the hex in a rectangle and then draw a polygon over it to cover up the parts you don't want to see.
Or edit the pixels of you don't want displayed and make them transparent.

I would like to be able to do that, I'm just not sure how. I am putting the hexes on a solid blue background in the jpg file, but I don't know what the commands are to make that transparent when I draw it. Worst case scenario, I can make one hex per jpg, but I'll still need to make the blue background transparent so only the hex appears on my Panel. I'm not too experienced with Graphics2D and AWT, so thanks for any help you can give.

I've seen code on some of the forums that set some pixels transparent. I don't remember where.

Perhaps you could use a photo editor to change some of the pixels to transparent.

What is it you are trying to draw?

I'm making a map for a strategy game, out of hexes. I want to have each hex as a separate entity so I can build lots of maps out of the same small number of hexes, randomly generating maps with program rather than creating entire maps outside of Java. I could use photoshop to make a transparent background instead of blue. Would I need to load it into the Java program as a different file, like gif or png to get that to work? Because then I could just capture rectangles and the transparent parts can overlap.

Write a small test program and give it a try. I've never tried to paint an image multiple times to make a grid like you seem to want to do.