Image Overlaps

[AcidReignX]

Hello,

I'm trying to develop an avatar system where you can overlap images onto a single image (like put a hat onto a character). I've googled tons of combinations trying to find out how to do this in php, but so far I've had no luck. So here I am.

Anybody here able to direct me to the answer?

 

[vbkris]

are all the other images predefined(like the hat) or are they created at runtime? if they are predefined then i would suggest use of layers...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[AcidReignX]

Predefined as in already drawn and saved as an image? If so, then yes.

And do you perhaps have a good tutorial I could look at for layers. Now that I know a good keyword (can't believe I didn't try that one before... sheesh) I might be able to find something on it, but its odd that it didn't come up with some of the other stuff I tried... hmm...

Well, anyways, if you do have a link to a tutorial, that would be appreciated. I've tried learning from other code, but it doesn't work for some reason (the stuff that I was trying). Here's what I had:

<?php
$im = imagecreatefromgif("images/upleft.gif");
$im2 = imagecreatefromgif("images/topic.gif");

imagecopy ($im, $im2, 0, 0, 0, 0 40, 20);
imagedestroy($im2);

imagegif($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

And it gives me this error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_LNUMBER

Maybe that helps?

 

[vbkris]

thats a PHP error, no idea (i havnt used GD lib much).

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[sleipnir214]

The error is almost certainly from the highlighted portion of this line:

imagecopy ($im, $im2, 0, 0, 0, [red]0 40[/red], 20);


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[MattNeeley]

Here's some sample code you can modify to start you out.

$img_1_file = (your smaller file here);
$img_1_size = @getimagesize($img_1_file);
$img_1_width = $img_size[0];
$img_1_height = $img_size[1];
$img_1 = imagecreatefrom____($img_1_file);
$img_2_file = (your bigger file here);
$img_2_size = @getimagesize($img_2_file);
$img_2_width = $img_size[0];
$img_2_height = $img_size[1];
$img_2 = imagecreatefrom____($img_2_file);
$dst_x = (smaller picture's left/right location);
$dst_y = (smaller picture's top/bottom location);
imagecopyresampled($img_2,$img_1,$dst_x,$dst_y,0,0,img_2_width,img_2_height,img_1_width,img_1_height)
imagedestroy($img_1);
header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
imagejpeg($img_2);
imagedestroy($img_2);