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A collection of sprites that are loaded into memory as one image.

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Editing this code to put in my own sprites and textures?

I have to make a game for class and have to have scrolling camera, fully textured background, and have the sprite be fluid. I need the rectangle to be turned into a sprite. This code I found on https:/...
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Creating palette from irregular sprites in Unity

I want to create a palette based on a number of PNGs in Unity 2D. I am struggling to understand the slicing logic. Let's say I have a sprite 588x547, and I set PPU to 128. So obviously the sprite ...
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Spritesheet Usage

I am working on an RPG game and I am storing most of my textures in separate .png files, but for my sprites I would like to use a sprite sheet. How do you cut and store the sheet into individual ...
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Slicing irregular spritesheet (automatically?)

If found a cool sprite sheet on the internet but its irregular. Is there any way besides manually cutting sprites to extract the separate pngs? I need to pack them then again into the Texture Atlas ...
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Making my characters modular

I'm making a school-based sandbox adventure game in Unity. I need a lot of NPCs with different apperances. I dreaded this since I don't have fun doing art and it is usually the reason I end up ...
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How to render a trimmed sprite?

I used TexturePacker to create an atlas for me and I've read it into my game. I can use unrotated and untrimmed sprites and it works fine. Now I would like to support trimmed sprites and I'm running ...
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How to cut polygon shape sprite in Multiple Sprite Editor Unity

Here is a sprite I have taken from internet and trying to slice it out in many smaller pieces. But the problem is I have polygon shape sprite, how to cut it out, selected in picture ? Rest are ...
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Generate spritesheets on the server or in the client browser?

I want to make a browser game (using HTML5-canvas) where the user can create their own character with different clothing and stuff. I want to use something like the Universal LPC Sprite Sheet set. ...
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Placing tile on second layer results in wrong tile, or changes nearby tiles

So I am working on a 2d game and running into strange behavior when trying to add tiles to a tile map. The first layer seems to work fine but if I add a new layer it will always place the same tile ...
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Why does my sprite shifts position on specific animationframe?

I have created a spritesheet to create animation. Everything is working fine untill I come to a specific frame in one animation. I have currently 3 animations loops Idle Animation Moving Animation ...
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How should I go about handling nonuniformed sprite sheet with JSON data?

This might be a lenghty question so bare with me. I'm developing a 2D game i Monogame framework and I'm stuck with it comes to handle large sprite sheets with different frame width, height and ...
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Any tips for aligning existing sprite sheets to a grid?

I've been dabbling with sprites, and I've found most sprite sheets that have been posted for existing games (for example, Sonic & Knuckles) are not aligned to a grid. I've found this frustrating ...
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unity emission map bleeds (bug?)

I have a material with a spritesheet texture (albedo) and an emission map. The spritesheet has 32x32 squares. The emission has a 32x32 square that is an emission for the magma-looking square. It ...
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What are efficient strategies to support alternate spritesheets in Unity

Context Let's suppose a classic card game, designed in Unity (say the latest release as of now, so 2018.2.16). Visible cards are GameObjects with ...
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Unity - SpriteAtlas memory consumption

I'm in the process of optimizing my application memory consumption. To do so, I'm using Unity profiler while connecting to an Android device, which runs a development build of the application. The ...
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How to split sprites into multiple pieces, like in image below

Or how it should be called? I will change color programmatically. Sorry for my English.
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Multiple image objects extracted from spritesheets or one-two object for all?

Let's say I want to make a 2D game and I'll use a spritesheet containing all of the animation frames and a texture-atlas for static sprites such as walls, non-animated decorations...etc. Should I ...
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Spine: export both skeleton and spritesheet

I am follow this tutorial for animation using spine. In this tutorial, they are import components separately (i.e: head, body, hands, legs ...). After I finish animation part, I want to export to json....
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How can I have more values in array on X axis than Y axis in my tilemap?

Following my old question Array of map data renders the map the opposite way after I got the answer to it and fixed my problem, I got another problem that occurs. If my ...
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Parts of sprite disappear when zoomed out

I'm playing around with making a roguelike and I want to use ascii characters as tiles in the game. I'm using a 256x256 sprite map where each character ends up being a 32x32 box. This works fine, ...
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How to make my SpriteSheet be POT?

So let's say my sprite sheet has 3 sprites in one row. One sprite is 64 pixels wide and high. When that is combined my sheet would be 192 pixels wide and 64 high. So from that, how am I supposed to ...
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What are the legal considerations with using spritesheets? [duplicate]

If you google for sprites sheets, you'll find a lot of sprites sheets. As far as I can remember, industrial patents (the terms may not be the right ones I'm sorry), after 20 years, fall into public ...
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How to access sprite sheet via row and column

I'm currently designing a 2D game engine in C#, just had a quick question. I have a SpriteSheet class that splits up a sprite into several different sprites (like ...
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Is there an easier way to get sprites from a spritesheet

One issue I have when working with API's such as Monogame and SFML unlike with Game Engines like Unity and Unreal is trying to extract sprites from a spritesheet. I know the method of doing it but it ...
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Don't know what to do with XML file and Spritesheet (Swift 3)

I'm new to spritesheets and game development in general. I have two files: 1) a .png spritesheet with tons of sprites and 2) a companion XML file with coordinates, anchor points, image names, and ...
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One big spritesheet vs many smaller spritesheets?

I have my 2D character animations which are stored in spritesheets. I have individual sprite sheet for every animation. For example, if my character have animations for idle, run and jump, I have 3 ...
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Cannot use sprite sheet to add texture to RawImage?

I am basically trying to recreate this sample image from this sprite sheet (Source) I split the sprite sheet in the sprite editor of unity, now I want to use the top left texture for ground. But ...
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Unity fails to effectively split spritesheet

I'm very new to game development and I find it very difficult to split the spritesheets available at opengameart.org. All of them are kind of jumbled together without any fixed grid. The resource I ...
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Unity performance: change sprite from array or sprite sheet animation?

Quite some time ago I made a "GIF player" that basically reads a sprite array and swaps the sprite using a Coroutine, one after the other, in order to imitate a "...
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Use texture array for spritesheets?

To save texture bind there is the technique to use a sprite sheet which combines several sprites into one texture. Now if I have more sprites than which will fit into one sprite sheet (limited by ...
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How to flip sprites with different dimensions horizontally?

I am trying to make an animation on HTML5 Canvas with this texture atlas, which was packed by TexturePacker: and it works good when the Character is facing right. I try to flip it horizontally, but ...
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Splitting a sprite sheet into sprites

Each animation has its own sprite sheet. First I tried to give each sprite their own rectangle and do some calculations to make sure that the bottom left corner of each sprite would be at the same ...
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SFML Sprite not being rendered when returned from a method

I am trying to use spritesheets in SFML. My Player class inherits from the Creature class which inherits from the Entity class. I only see a white square when I render the player. However, this is not ...
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Why is my SpriteSheet displayed over my player character in MonoGame?

I'm trying to make a little Zelda clone. I'm just starting with MonoGame, following tutorials, and I have a problem when loading the sprite for my player character: it loads the whole spritesheet ...
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SpriteSheets with XML and without XML

I'm very new to game development, and I'm working with Godot engine. I'm making a platform game and I downloaded a package from the web with assets, it contained ...
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What is a good way to load and provide graphics to classes and subclasses in monogame?

First of all: I'm not sure if my question is worded well, I just can't think of any better way. I'm also a beginner both at Monogame and programming in general, so my question might miss the actual ...
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How should you save sprites for talking and blinking characters?

Lets say you have a game like Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, where characters appear on screen and do things like: change their stance/pose depending on the situation and mood (looking happy, looking ...
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How to select multiple frames from a sprite sheet in unity

I have a sprite sheet and cannot figure out how to select multiple frames in unity 5.5 I am watching a tutorial and it doesn't say how to do it. Is there a button I have to press while clicking or is ...
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What is the purpose of these purple images in these sprite files of Super Mario Maker? [closed]

I was looking at the Wii U's Super Mario Maker Sprites and noted that all of them have purple images that each correspond to one of the animation frames (see below). What could they have been used for?...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of exporting spritesheets instead of models from Spriter into Unity?

I'm working on a simple 2D platformer in Unity and have been using the Spriter2Unity tool to import my Spriter animations directly into Unity. I have noticed that this creates large hierarchies of ...
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how can i make a sprite from a spritesheet increase its size?

I want to be able to increase the size of a sprite to give the illusion that it is walking towards you (or decrease in size to move away). how do i manipulate the size of a loaded sprite off a sprite ...
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How to make even animations with sprite sheets in Unity 5?

When importing a sprite sheet into Unity and dividing it up, what is the best way to do so to ensure that your animation works smoothly? Is there a mathematical formula for dividing the spritesheet ...
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How do I make perfect sprite sheets?

I made a .GIF using sprite sheet animation, but I do not think it is working properly, because it shivers at the base. I made it in Photoshop Max Power. How do I easily make perfect sprite sheets ...
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How to use Unity to slice sprite

The polygon slice function of TexturePacker Pro is very nice, it suit the size of the sprite. However my TexturePacker Pro trial had finished, and by using Unity Sprite Editor will make my sliced ...
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What does pressing CTRL do when editing a sprite sheet?

I have a multi-sprite sprite sheet. When I have a blue box selected, and I hold CTRL, the box turns green. I have played with it, but cannot figure out what it does. I checked the documentation, ...
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How to create and choose sprite sheet for different mobile screen resolution in Unity

Background We’re working on a 2D mobile game. We want to publish the game on all apple devices which at least support iOS 7 and to all android devices which at least support Android 4 OS. These ...
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Why don't most major game engines use gifs for animated textures?

What is better to use Animation Sheets or Gifs? One advantage Gifs have over Animation Sheets is that you don't have to think about frames going too fast or too slow because of your code and updating ...
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Do the sprites inside a PoT spritesheed need to be PoT aswell?

I use TexturePackerGUI to create PoT spritesheets. But do the sprites inside the spritesheet need to be PoT aswell? If they need to, do I need to disable trimming? The framework I use is libGDX.
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Trouble loading sprite from spritesheet with Phaser

I am working on re-creating a breakout clone to help me learn Phaser (following the overall design of jsbreakouts.org). Anyway, I have the start screen set up. From the start screen, I can transition ...
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LibGDX - How do you load huge spritesheets?

As we know, there is a GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE on each mobile phone which makes things really hard. I write an app for all mobile devices and I need to load some huge ...

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