animation tiles

[zainuluk]

Hi, I am trying to animate a character in my game and am using a single Large image with lots of smaller animations on them....I have a problem with breaking the image up into there individual fames. Can anyone hlp me. ok thanks
a website would be nice

The code I implemented is shown below
I have a problem with in the ....
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return createImage(new FilteredImageSource(ip,new CropImageFilter(x,y,width,height)));
"

the error I get is as follows

C:\My Documents\marioGame\GoRacing\FrameCollection.java:47: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : method createImage  (java.awt.image.FilteredImageSource)
location: class FrameCollection
           return createImage(new FilteredImageSource(ip,new CropImageFilter(x,y,width,height)));
                      ^
1 error



can anyone help me
oh this isn't the main Applet class but a side class.
ok thanks

[zparticle]

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/**      * Splits a single image containing multiple animation frames      * into an array of Image objects. This method assumes the      * frames are arranged horizontally in the source image.      */     static public Image[] splitAnim(Image comboImage, int startX, int startY, int width, int height,         int frameCount, GraphicsConfiguration gc) {         Color c = new Color(0,0,0,0);         Image[] frames = new Image[frameCount];         for(int frame = 0; frame<frameCount; frame++)         {             BufferedImage bi = gc.createCompatibleImage(width,height,Transparency.TRANSLUCENT);             Graphics g = bi.getGraphics();             g.drawImage(comboImage,                 0,0,width,height,                 startX+(width*frame),startY,startX+(width*(frame+1)),startY+(height),                 null,null);             frames[frame] = bi;         }         return frames;     }