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aazimon

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Cutting images or not

« on: 2012-01-30 12:48:15 »

I just read a recent post, where they mentioned cutting a sprite image and then a response to use subImage() instead. It sounds like subimage may be a tiny bit slower. So which is better? Or does it not matter?
If I plan to use Slick2D, does it matter with that?

theagentd

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Re: Cutting images or not

« Reply #1 on: 2012-01-30 14:12:21 »

It should be "better" to keep the image as a single large image and just keep track of which parts of the large image are individual "sub-images", but in practice the difference is negligible. The only practical difference is the extra load time to split the image, but again, this too is negligible.