[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 16 ■ Collision Detection: Creating SVG Polygons for the Game Actors and Writing Code to Detect Collision
Figure 16-4. Right-click on Selection Path in Paths Palette, and Export Path
In the other floating palette, click on the Paths Tab, shown on the right side of Figure 16-4. GIMP has two,
primary floating tool windows; one is the GIMP Toolbox, containing Tools, Options, Brushes, Patterns, and
Gradients, and the other contains four tabs, which represent your digital image’s compositing Layers, Channels,
Selection Paths, and even an Undo Buffer, which gives you a “history” of every “move” you have made in GIMP since
you launched it.
Select the Path named Selection (the Path layer named Selection will then turn blue). Next right-click on the
Path named Selection, and at the bottom of that menu of things that you can do to the Selection Path, you will see an
Export Path menu option. This is another one of the key GIMP algorithms that enables this collision polygon creation
and output work process for us.
Selecting this Export Path option will export the current InvinciBagel character Selection Path data for us, as a
text-based (XML) file containing SVG data, which is what we need to use in our Bagel() constructor method call. This
data will be contained in the first String SVGdata parameter, and will replace our “dummy data” that we have been
using as a placeholder thus far.
Once you invoke the Export Path menu option, you will see the Export Path to SVG dialog, which is shown in
Figure 16-5. As you can see, I’ve selected the “Export the active path” option, at the bottom of the dialog, since I only
want to have one collision polygon path data object, and I am naming this file sprite1svgdata.svg, and I am saving it
in my C:\Clients\BagelToons\InvinciBagelGame\Shape_Data folder.
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