I have a quadrilateral drawn in Path2D, and I would like for there to be an image on it. More specifically, I am trying to draw an image of my choice to 4 different points on a quadrilateral. In my case, it is a parallelogram. I do not want the image to go over the paralellogram. A better way to see what I am trying to say is to see the screenshot below.
I would like the image to be transformed to fit the green area. Not clipped.
I want the image to be pinned over the green paralellogram. However. I do not want the image to go over into the blue paralellogram, or the white space foe that matter.
So far I have tried
Researching for a way to place images directly onto Path2D.Double() objects. No answer
Rotating the image to fit the paralellogram. Didnt work.
Using AffineTransform in java. Dont get it ;-;
Thanks. I am new to java so do try to be lenient?
One way is to:
create a separate BufferedImage.
Apply a transform to the new image.
Draw your image to that new image.
Use the Shape object for the green area as a clip on the main drawing area
Draw the transformed image onto the main drawing area.
It's been a while since I have done transformations. You may have to set the transformation first and then draw the image after. Transformation has to come first.
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
g2.transform(AffineTransform.getShearInstance(1.0, 0));
g2.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this);
}
Here is a simple example of how transforms work. You will have to spend some time on figuring out what values you need to make it work or if you might need to manually create a transformation matrix yourself.
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I have a rather pressing question in regards to Swing, which I haven't touched for many years.
I have a code that allows the user to draw different rectangles on the pdf document (contained within JPanel). I draw them, move them, resize them, select them, and even write text on them. What I can't do is to keep them consistent when I zoom the document. As the document gets bigger, the rectangles I've drawn stay at the same position and the same size.
I was wondering if there's a relatively easy logic to track the zooming level and, most importantly, update the rectangles accordingly. I can retrieve zoom factor, it's a float, but, unfortunately, I'm using Rectangle object, which uses int for x, y, height, and width. It will be a hassle to convert it to Rectangle.Float, and I wanted to save it for a last resort.
I've tried to use AffineTransform, but I'm not quite familiar with it, for some reason I'm getting the wrong coordinates for y. Can anyone explain to me:
What's the best way to control the Rectangle object, as the pdf document gets zoomed in and out?
If AffineTransform is the best way, how should I handle it (maybe there's a link to a good explanation, if so - I couldn't find it)?
This is the only issue I've been struggling with and it's getting a bit frustrating now.
To scale using an AffineTransform:
Get the transform T of the Graphics object G
Create an AffineTransform object A
Set the scale of A
Set the transform of the G to A
Draw the shapes
Set the transform of G back to T
Translated into code - assuming scale is the value to scale by:
#Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics gr){
super.paintComponent(gr);
Graphics2D g = (Graphics2D)gr;
AffineTransform prevTransform = g.getTransform();
AffineTransform at = new AffineTransform(prevTransform);
at.scale(scale, scale);
g.setTransform(at);
g.drawRect(...);
g.setTransform(prevTransform);
}
I am creating images in Java that have fonts written on them with a transparent background. I make the fonts different colors and also different types of font styles so I need the program to be dynamic. The issue is that I am using Graphics2D and writing on a Buffered Image using g2d.drawString() and the images aren't nearly the definition I'm looking for. I've tried creating large images with large font sizes and then downscaling but that doesn't work either. I also have set all of the possible RenderingHints to highest definition. I would like the pixel density to be high enough that there isn't much of a difference if you compared it with regular text on a retina screen. Thanks.
To have "retina" quality images in Java, you must create and render your BufferedImage at 2 times the normal size in both dimensions (this will make the image 4 times as large, which I think is what #MadProgrammer means).
Then, you must not downsample (or "scale") the image in Java, but instead keep the BufferedImage in full size, and only draw the image in half size to a native backed Graphics2D instance. The Graphics object passed to the paint() or paintComponent() methods of an AWT or Swing component is normally fine (while the one from BufferedImage.get/createGraphics() isn't).
I've used code like this with success:
#Override
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
AffineTransform xform = AffineTransform.getScaleInstance(.5, .5);
g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION,
RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);
g2.drawImage(image, xform, null); // image being #2x or "retina" size
}
However, note that the font rendering on modern computer uses "sub pixel antialiasing" or "sub pixel rendering", which is specific to the screen device you are rendering to (see the link, but basically, the RGB pattern or "layout" differs from device to device). This means a BufferedImage usually can't use sub pixel rendering, and thus fonts will look less crisp. If you are rendering to a single LCD screen, you might be able to specify one of the RenderingHints.TEXT_ANTIALIAS_LCD_* rendering hints for better results.
It is possible to draw from one Graphics2D to another Graphics2D?
Let me explain.
I have printing issues, when i display a JTextArea or JTextPanel in screen, internaly its used sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D, but when im printing its used sun.print.PeekGraphics and sun.awt.windows.WPathGraphics.
The problem is with some kind of Fonts, like Arial. In some sizes lines are cut.
I have tryed a lot of ways to render the text in printing, Graphics2D.drawString, SwingUtilities2.drawString, TextLayout.drawString, but in some cases lines are still cut, or lines are not cut but some kind of justification makes disapear white spaces.
So my idea is try to render components with sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D and "copy" the surface to the printer via sun.print.PeekGraphics or sun.awt.windows.WPathGraphics.
Thanks in advance.
Yes its possible, thats how double buffering is achieved in a lot of Java Games. What you need is the Graphics2D's drawImage() method which takes in another Graphics2D object to draw in. E.g. from a small game of mine:
private Main(){
...
/* Create the backbuffer as a BufferedImage object */
this.doubleBuffer = new BufferedImage(this.WIDTH, this.HEIGHT, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
/* create a Graphics 2D object to draw INTO this backbuffer */
this.doubleBufferG2D = (Graphics2D) doubleBuffer.createGraphics();
...
}
Somewhere else:
/*Now lets draw the backbuffer INTO the screen */
g2d.drawImage(doubleBuffer, null , 0, 0);
Edit: heh I realized its not exactly as above...lemme think on it.
Edit2: Alright the above can still be used a sample, but the sequence of steps to draw from one Graphics2D to another should be as such:
1. From a Graphics2D object to an Image/BufferedImage object using drawGraphics().
2. From the Image/BufferedImage above, extract its member Graphics2D object by using itscreateGraphics().
Looks like you can do one of two things:
create a Graphics2D on an image, do your rendering, then draw the image into another Graphics2D
or create Graphics2D from original Graphics2D using Graphics.create() methods and then do you rendering.
I am making a game in Java. I made a planet seen from outer space and I want to make it appear like the planet is slowly rotating. But I don't know how to rotate a image. I need a simple command that rotates my image 1 degree around its own center once. Any help?
This is what I want to do:
Image
Take a look at these tutorials:
Java2D: Have Fun With Affine Transform
Coordinate Translations and Rotations: Example Code
Transforming Shapes, Text, and Images
What you are describing is not rotating an image, but changing an image to represent a 3D rotation of the object in the image.
Ideally you wouldn't be working with this as an image but rather as a 3D object with a different camera angle. Then you would simply rotate the camera around the object and display the resulting image to the user.
However if you're set on doing this as an image, then you need to create a different images representing various states of rotation of your planet and have a separate thread that would replace the displayed image with the next one in sequence, at repeated intervals. Search the web for "java image animation" - there are plenty of tutorials on how to do this.
If you want to rotate an image in 2d space, you can use something like this:
Image image = ...
Graphics2D g2d = ...; //
g2d.translate(170, 0); // If needed
g2d.rotate(1); // Rotate the image by 1 radian
//or g2d.rotate(180.0/3.14); to rotate by 1 degree
g2d.drawImage(image, 0, 0, 200, 200, observer);
I have an Image on a JPanel. I'm then drawing a rectangle on top of the image like this:
Graphics2D image = (Graphics2D) g;
image.drawRect(......);
//create image code here.
image.rotate(1.5);
image.drawImage(....);
Problem is that when I rotate the image image.rotate(1.5), the rectangles stay in the same place.
I've tried creating the rectangle before rotating the image and after rotating the image, but both times it fails.
Is there an easy way to make the rectangles also rotate along with the image?
Thanks.
One approach is to rotate the graphics context's affine transform, as shown in this example. In that way, all drawing will be rotated by the same amount.
You might want to try using Rectangle, an implementation of the Rectangle2D class, then use g2d.draw(rectangle). This might be able to get the rotation state from the Graphics2D object better.