Feed image data into DataBuffer?

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Lillpeter (Posted May) [#1]

Hi everyone! I've been looking for a solution to this problem but have yet to find it. What I want to do is feed the pixel data from an Image object into a DataBuffer object before writing/saving it to a file (I'm making my own file format for use within a project). I have a simple function that use the LoadImageData command to load an image from disk directly into an int array which I can then easily feed into a DataBuffer using a For loop and PokeInt. But is there a way of doing that with an already loaded image?

Gerry Quinn (Posted May) [#2]

You can draw the image and use ReadPixels(), though that won't get you the alpha directly. Maybe drawing the image black on a white buffer would allow you read off the negative of alpha.