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POWhats a good way to save tile sprites from my level editor?
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copied!<p>I have built a tile based level editor in java, It is just about completed, but as I was writing the method to save the level, that all of my tiles were image sprites and I dont know of a way to save them so that the actual game can read them without making each tile it's own image file which I would then need to import to read in the real game. (there are over 700 possible tiles, a level would probably use 100 of those);</p> <p>My question to you all: what is the best way to save all these tiles? I am familiar with saving things to a text file but I am not able to save these images in the same way. Is there a way to save the level so that my text based information is saved in the same place as my tile sprites?</p> <p>here is my tile class and what I have so far in terms of my save method</p> <pre><code> public class Tile { int x, y, w, h, type; BufferedImage layer1Image; BufferedImage layer2Image; BufferedImage layer3Image; BufferedImage layer4Image; boolean walkable; public Tile(int x, int y, int w, int h) { walkable = false; this.x = x; this.y = y; this.w = w; this.h = h; type = 0; layer1Image = null; layer2Image = null; layer3Image = null; layer4Image = null; } public Tile() { } public int getX() { return x; } public int getY() { return y; } public int getW() { return w; } public int getH() { return h; } public void setX(int newX) { x = newX; } public void setY(int newY) { y = newY; } public void setW(int newW) { w = newW; } public void setH(int newH) { h = newH; } public boolean mouseOver(int mouseX, int mouseY) { if (mouseX > x && mouseX < x + w && mouseY > y && mouseY < y + h) { return true; } return false; } public int getType() { return type; } public boolean getWalkable() { return walkable; } public BufferedImage getLayer1Image() { return layer1Image; } public BufferedImage getLayer2Image() { return layer2Image; } public BufferedImage getLayer3Image() { return layer3Image; } public BufferedImage getLayer4Image() { return layer4Image; } public void clearImages() { layer1Image = null; layer2Image = null; layer3Image = null; layer4Image = null; walkable = true; } public void setImage(BufferedImage image, int layer) { switch (layer) { case 0: layer1Image = image; break; case 1: layer2Image = image; break; case 2: layer3Image = image; case 3: layer4Image = image; } } public void display(Graphics g, int x, int y, int w, int h, int zoom) { g.setColor(Color.BLACK); g.drawImage(layer1Image, x, y, w, h, null); g.drawImage(layer2Image, x, y, w, h, null); g.drawImage(layer3Image, x, y, w, h, null); g.drawImage(layer4Image, x, y, w, h, null); g.drawRect(x, y, w, h); } public void getAttributes(Tile tile) { layer1Image = tile.getLayer1Image(); layer2Image = tile.getLayer2Image(); layer3Image = tile.getLayer3Image(); layer4Image = tile.getLayer4Image(); x = tile.getX(); y = tile.getY(); w = tile.getW(); h = tile.getH(); walkable = tile.getWalkable(); type = tile.getType(); } public void setWalkable(boolean b) { walkable = b; } // Here is the save, its in a different class in case my formatting in the post is screwy public void doSaveAsText() { if (fileDialog == null) { fileDialog = new JFileChooser(); } File selectedFile; if (editFile == null) { selectedFile = new File("levelData.txt"); } else { selectedFile = new File(editFile.getName()); } fileDialog.setSelectedFile(selectedFile); fileDialog.setDialogTitle("Select File to be Saved"); int option = fileDialog.showSaveDialog(this); if (option != JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) { return; } selectedFile = fileDialog.getSelectedFile(); if (selectedFile.exists()) { int response = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(this, "Already exists, overwrite?", "Confirm Save", JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION, JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE); if (response != JOptionPane.YES_OPTION) { return; } } PrintWriter out; try{ FileWriter stream = new FileWriter(selectedFile); out = new PrintWriter(stream); } catch (Exception e){ JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "error"); return; } try{ out.println("LevelEditor v1.0"); for(int i = 0; i < mapPanel.tilesList.size(); i++){ Tile currentTile = mapPanel.tilesList.get(i); out.println("startTile"); out.println("" + currentTile.getX()); out.println("" + currentTile.getY()); out.println("" + currentTile.getW()); out.println("" + currentTile.getH()); out.println("" + currentTile.getWalkable()); out.println("endTile"); } out.close(); }catch(Exception e){ System.exit(0); } } Any suggestions would be great </code></pre>

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