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Hey Guys,

i have a whole bunch of animations as seperate files, one file per frame. They are all the sime size and properly registered.

Whats the easiest way to assemble them into a single sprite sheet? I tried ImagePacker but from what I could figure out that seemed to be more for putting multiple sheets together into a combined sheet.

Thanks

JK

ImagePacker is the right tool to be using, add all the single images onto one sheet. You can then load the sheet using PackedSpriteSheet and reference individual elements by name. (this of course isn't great for indexed sprites)

If they're all equal sizes and indexed you might be better to just open paint and just stick them on an image - then use SpriteSheet.

Kev

Well,I tried assembling them in paint shop pro but they were too big for the snap to work reliably, it seemed.

Im re-writing my JAI ant task that I mispalced ages ago so I can write a down-scaling conversion scri[pt. Maybe Ill try again after Ive reduced their size.

Thanks

JK

i mostly do this by writing a quick java program that uses BufferedImage and ImageIO.

Well, if there isnt an existing tool Ill probably play with ant tasks for it...

JK