SDL 2 Tutorial 4b - Drawing An Image Using SDL_image [WINDOWS VISUAL STUDIO]

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[ProjectMarzDev]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I HAVE BEEM TRYING TO SETUP SDL2 WITH IMAGE FOR 3 DAYS NOW AND I COULDNT GET IT THANK U SO MUCH FOR THIS TUTORIAL i have learned alot now! :)

[ballance_in_all_things]

Hey, thanks a LOT. These tips about copy to x86 and x64, to prevent a ton of include directories, is absolutely amazing!

[Prenz]

How do i get it to change from one image to another

Like:
If input HM_KEY_Q
Image1.unload
Image2.load

Tried this and it doesnt work

[anderson]

Thanks for save my life lol.
Great job!

[kataiho]

Nice video I was confused why it wasn't included in standard SDL thanks a lot ! : )

[checkmeout]

Can you make a code:blocks version fo this video because its kinda hard when the person on the video is using visual studio which I dont use

[juanvaquero]

Hey sonar, How can you remove the terminal when you run the game window? Thanks for your work, greetings from Spain.
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[Krishna-xitf]

can u give steps for code blocks mainly the steps to link the file SDL2_image.lib

[BlueKaiTheEnd-]

Are you not able to use a string type variable to store the file path to use as the argument for IMG_Load?
For example:

string iPath="src/pic1.png";
...
...
imageW = IMG_Load(iPath);
...

[ahmedrahmouni]

I followed your great video step by step and did everything you said to do, but i still have problemes with sdl and sdl_image not beeing recognized neither with visual studio, nor with mingw. i did put both DLL files inside the project folder and in the DEV folder. i should mention that i'm using them in a C project not cpp, you have any ideas for me ? because i'm getting frustrated from it. thx in advance

[thebarnold]

Keeps telling me that SDL2_image.dll was not found. Followed the same copy paste method as you did and did linker input, just gives me that error

[marcelinoborges]

Dude, where are the following videos?? lmao I'm try to figure how to draw the image at an specific point of the screen... Perhaps i'm a little bit dumb, but I just don't know how to search things in SDL documantation... =S

[lukaszm]

Hey, where are the other videos in this tutorial series?

[notchippy]

Im working in VS code, and im getting an error in the if and imageSurface

please help

[DoctorAjan]

is there tutorial of setting sdl_image with VScode?

[patty]

How can i Clone a Surface ?

for (int i=0; i <10; i++) pos.x +10
SDL_Surface(pic, NULL, screenSurcafe, &pos);

won't work

[gearcode]

hey, Why dont u try using oCam? I too once used OBS until a friend of mine showed me oCam. Its so smooth and simple. UI in OBS kinda suck Imo.

[Hypersystemoff]

Hello!.. I'm a little confused on why do you need to initialize sdl_image in this way:
if ( !(IMG_INIT(...) ) ){}
Up until now I've been initializing, say, SDL subsystems without any parentheses around SDL_INIT for example. So why does IMG_INIT needs to have parentheses around it inside the if statement and SDL_INIT doesn't?
Also, I watched another video on SDL_image and in that video the guy said that the library didn't need to be initialized and it actually still works if you don't initialize it. However, I want to know if something could go wrong if I don't do it.

Thank you!

[MrSaintRai]

are you going to continue to work on this series?

[millionre]

It sounds like you are forcing an accent