Converting Image files in a script

[nukes]

Right, for a project I am doing, I would like to be able to do the following:
Create a set of (about 40-50) tiles/icons each in seperate files, named in the format "xx.bmp" where xx is a number I assign the tile.
Run a script (I'm thinking ImageMagick could do this, but I'm not sure how to actually do it) that will render all these tiles to a single file, so that instead of having them all in seperate ones, I could have them all as one image, which is blitted from each time, rather than having lots of surfaces open.
What I mean by that is, say I had 100 tiles at 64x64 pixels, it would create an image 640x640 pixels big, and render ten of these tiles on a row, and another ten immediatly below, so that I could just set up a rectangle and blit from here.

[crouse]

I didn't fix the code..... but here is the method anyway You should be able to set it up using something like this.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Example 3-2.

use strict;
use Image::Magick;
my $img = new Image::Magick;
# Read all of the images with a .gif
# extension in the current bdirectory
my $status = $img->Read("*.gif");
if ($status) {
die "$status";
}
# Montage() returns a new image
my $montage = $img->Montage(geometry =>'100x100',
tile =>'3x2',
borderwidth => 2);
$montage->Write('png:montage1.png');
# Also try:
# my $montage = $img->Montage(
# geometry=>'100x100',
# tile => '3x2',
# background => '#FFFFFF',
# pointsize => 12,
# label => "%f\n%wx%h\n(%b)",
# fill => '#000000',
# borderwidth => 2
#);
#my $montage = $img->Montage(
# geometry => "100x100+10+10",
# tile => '3x2',
# background => '#FFFFFF',
# label => "%f",
# mode => 'Frame',
# frame => "10x10+2+4"
#);

Example script is from : http://shawn.apocabilly.org/PGP/examples/example3-2.txt

[crouse]

See also: http://www.imagemagick.org/www/montage.html#exam

montage +frame +shadow +label -tile 5x1 -geometry 50x50+0+0 *.png joined.png

[nukes]

Thanks. I'm now trying to figure out what it all actually does. Looks like I'll have to do some reading for this too.

[Gait_Keeper]

when you get it working post the result, I'm real curious how it will look

[nukes]

Sorted. Cheers c.

[crouse]

I used the second method before....... works really well.

[nukes]

http://www23.brinkster.com/nukes031/tiles.tar.gz
Thats the individual pics and set.jpg is the output.
I created it using:

 montage +frame +label -tile 4x4 -geometry 64x64+0+0 *.bmp set.jpg

[nukes]

I can just stick that into my makefile now, and save some hassle.

[crouse]

Image Magick is pretty cool isn't it