Tile Cutter

Because I couldn't not get the famed https://github.com/jlamarche/Tile-Cutter and https://github.com/psineur/Tile-Cutter/network to work in Mac OS X 10.7, with PNG images, I googled around and found a simple python implementation.

Improving upon it, and adding support for creation of cocos2d-esque plist files, here we are.

Huh?

This will take an image, and cut it into a number of tiles. It will also create a plist file containing references to these tiles that can be read by CCBigImage.

More about CCBigImage here: https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-iphone-extensions/tree/develop/Extensions/CCBigImage

The output will be PNG files and one plist file.

Dependencies

Required python libraries: Python Image Library (aka Image, PIL).

Idea and some code was found here: http://blog.odonnell.nu/posts/creating-tiles-image-python-and-pil/

Usage

Usage: usage: tilecut.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o NAME, --output=NAME
                        output name, sans extension (may include directory)
  -s SUFFIX, --suffix=SUFFIX
                        suffix for file names, such as '-hd'. Please use
                        quotes if your suffix includes a dash.
  -i FILE, --input=FILE
                        input file
  -x VALUE, --tileWidth=VALUE
                        tile width
  -y VALUE, --tileHeight=VALUE
                        tile height

Example

./tilecut.py -i ../originals/ship_panorama-hd.png -x 128 -y 128 -o ship_panorama -s "-hd"

Will create the files you are looking for.

Limitations

If your tiles all need to be the same size, the image has to accommodate for this, or you must choose your tile sizes accordingly.