Hi,
I'm trying to create a simple tile based web game and currently load each of the 124 tiles as a separate GIF file. This takes a very long time to load. I also have all of the (16*16px) tiles in one large image file (256x256). I am trying to load them like so:

for(temp=0; temp<=124; temp++)
 {
   a=temp%16;
   b=(temp-a)/16;
   tiles[temp]=tempImage.get(a*16, b*16, 16,16);
 }

This code loads the tiles faster than loading 4 tiles separately, but the resulting PImage tiles[] slow the game to an absolute crawl. I don't get it. Are my PImages somehow different than they were when I loaded them like so:

for(temp=0; temp<=124; temp++)
 {
   tiles[temp] = loadImage("Tiles/"+str(temp)+".gif");
 }

Thanks!
Joseph D.

set() is faster because it can just copy the pixels directly from the image. the image() function has to respond to the tint() color and any scale/rotate/translate calls so it will be slower than cases where you just want to draw the pixels directly. image() has to be more general, and in the default renderer that makes it really slow.