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[Trash_Empire]

I am a programmer. I prefer to make programmer art, until I have to make non-hardcoded graphics. However, I do not know how to create and export hardcoded graphics. Is there a way to hardcode graphics in like python or something, and then export it to a png or something. Is there a good library for this? Some guidance would be well appreciated. Thanks, Devlizard.

[Mopee]

Hi,

There is a programming language called processing that you can try for this. For what you want to do it's quite powerfull.

http://www.processing.org/

Share what you do with it 

[Dacke]

You want to create an image programmatically and save it to disk? You can do it with pretty much any language. If you have a preference for Python, here is one of many ways to do it:

Code:

import Image
import ImageDraw

im = Image.new("RGB", (64, 64), "#ddd")
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
draw.line(((10, 10), (50, 30), (10, 40), (10, 10)), fill="red")

im.save("sprite.png")

http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/pil/image-draw.html

[ETG]

Photoshop has a few tools that could help.

You can do macros to automate things.
The slice tool can cut an image up to be exported as smaller separate images.
Adjustment layers and filters could be a quick and dirty way to make identifiably different copies of assets you do have.

You could make a sprite sheet of, say, all your equipment, slice the image up into individual pieces, throw on a color adjustment layer to make a green, red, blue, yellow version, then a filter on top of that to distort the image, then automate the exporting to make every different combination of equipment and alterations all at once.

[Trash_Empire]

I have been using a fork of PIL for a while called Pillow. It has been exactly what I need. Thanks, Devlizard.