[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 16 ■ Collision Detection: Creating SVG Polygons for the Game Actors and Writing Code to Detect Collision
Figure 16-9. Insert 15 strategically placed points to define a collision shape and use the Export Path to export SVG data
Export your hand-drawn path, by selecting, and right-clicking on the Unnamed Path shown in the middle of
Figure 16-9, and use the Export Path menu option to export it as the file sprite1svghand.svg, just like you did back in
Figure 16-5. If you want to name the path in GIMP, you can double-click on the path name in the path dialog, and give
it a name, if you like. If you want to save your work in the native GIMP .xcf file format, you can also use the File ➤ Save
menu sequence, and give the file a name, such as sprite1svgpath15points.xcf.
Next, use your Text Editor’s (Notepad, for instance) File Open dialog, as was shown in Figure 16-6, and open the
latest sprite1svghand.svg file, so you can see how much data you have saved relative to the nearly 100 data point pairs
that the GIMP Fuzzy Select Tool selection work process provided for us in the first section of this chapter.
As you can see in Figure 16-10, there are 14 times 3 (42) data pairs, which is less than half of the amount that we
had in the previous work process. This is strange, because theoretically, there should only be 15 data pairs, so let’s do
some investigative work, and see what might be going on with this data.
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