Games Png to Spritesheet ???

[ilan]

Sometime you find a nice PNG (image) file that you really like and would like to use it in your game.
The problem is how do you animate that image?

there are a lot apps that can help you animate an image but the best app i found is SPRITER.

the great thing in spriter is that you create bones and connect them to your image and like this you can animate it very easy. i include a video of an example i did few minutes ago.

i wanted to share this with you (game developers) because spriter is now on sale so you should really consider getting this great tool. it will help you with game making.
you can also try spriter for free and if you like it you can purchase the license. (i did it and its worth every penny!)

spriter link: https://brashmonkey.com/

 

[ilan]

video has been updated, it shows now the animation in the game.

 

[sorex]

thanks for the hint.

it's a bit more advanced than the keyframe animation tool I wrote in B4J

does this export to a png with all frames in it or to a settings file with keyframe parameters so that you can animate them with minimal amount of image data?

 

[wonder]

Interesting... too bad I suck at animation...
I tried Spine once (similar to Spriter) and I failed miserably !!

Nonetheless, what kind of output do you get?
A PNG spritesheet?

 

[ilan]

Interesting... too bad I suck at animation...

Nonetheless, what kind of output do you get?
A PNG spritesheet?

you can get a spritesheet, a gif or the animations in single pngs

you can sort the spritesheet in lines and also control the fps of your output. spriter is very good you have a lot possibilities
and its easy to use.

 

[ilan]

sprite sheet example: