Best animation packer

speeder_kidoteca

Hello!

I want to know what are the best software that can pack animations for Gideros!

The IDE Texture Packer last I checked was pretty shitty.

Mells

Do yourself a favor and buy TexturePacker (textures).
For animations I've been using Tnt Animator Studio.

The IDE Texture Packer last I checked was pretty shitty.

There might be other ways to say it + add a few suggestions to improve it.

speeder_kidoteca

I have TexturePacker, good tool, I was wondering if someone found something better.

Mells

@speeder_kidoteca
Oh no, that's nothing. My pleasure.

ArtLeeApps

Not sure about this latest version of the Gideros Texture packer, but i found if you saved a png with many textures, you couldnt open it and move to the right to see all of them, ie, a scroll bar would be handy.

plamen

GraphicsGale FreeEdition this is my choice for animations. Easy coverts 32bit AVI files in PNG sprite image

speeder_kidoteca

plamen GraphicsGale can pack textures for Gideros???

I thought it was only good for drawing pixel art or converting files...

phongtt

Found this: http://renderhjs.net/shoebox/

plamen

@speeder_kidoteca. I use movie clips a lot. All animations are finished and tested in After Effects then exported in 32bit AVI files with alpha channel. After it just loaded in GraphicsGale and saved as PNG sheets. You just need to pick how many rows and columns you want. Very simple.

speeder_kidoteca

plamen I see.... I did that in the past, but only makes sense when you don't need cropping or irregular shapes.

plamen

@speeder_kidoteca tbh i still can't get the reason to pack my bitmaps in sheets if they are not animations. I keep all graphics as separate files very easy to change if needed and very simple to load from the code. No idea about some serious advantage of single sheet of small images vs single file per image.

hgvyas123

here's the best and very funny explanation

http://www.codeandweb.com/what-is-a-sprite-sheet

bravcm

Found this: http://renderhjs.net/shoebox/

Does Shoebox export Sprite sheets to Gideros?

petec

@hgvyas123 Thanks for the link to the explanations - very good!

I take it that if I want to use @x2 images I'd make two different sprite sheets (one at @x1 size and another at @x2) for Gideros to pick the relevant one, just as I would for individual graphics files? And that they would both use the @x1 text file?

speeder_kidoteca

@petec

Yes

Or at least I think so, I put only x1 text file, and x1 and x2 for images.

petec

@speeder_kidoteca Thanks

hgvyas123

@petec

afaik you need @1x and @2x txt file also if you use Gideros Texturepacker it will create both files for you

petec

@hgvyas I tried it with just the @x1 txt file and it seemed to work ok with letterbox scaling.

hgvyas123

yup i had also tested this and it is working strange!!!!!!!

speeder_kidoteca

By the way, I create my art in x4 and use ImageMagick to create x1 and x2, the scaling algorithm they have there is really good.

I wrote a blog post talking about that: http://coderofworlds.com/screen-and-asset-image-scaling-for-games/