CGE Sprite Editor

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@michalis I watched your video this morning. Thanks for this. The video was better to follow than the previous ones as you spoke slower, typed slower and moved the mouse slower. :slight_smile:
The thing that really was new to me was the ability to drag files and drop them onto the screen. Great.
And the Alpha Bleed. Interesting, I will try this out.

Update: I just realised it was not presented by you but by Andrzej Kilijański.
:rofl:

I thought it would be interesting to start a topic on the Sprite Editor as I have used TexturePacker until now. I think CGE Sprite Editor can be improved and leaving TexturePacker in the shadow in time.

1.With the CGE the atlas width and height cannot be set different, which results in a very large atlas with a lot of unused space.
2.There is no trimming option of the images.
3. Lack of output color depth selecting (32 or 16 bit) and png compression values

I use different programs for making sprites. It would be great if from zero to finish it could be done with just a single application.
For me this would be:

  1. load a video file
  2. cut out part(s)
  3. set a transparant color
  4. edit colors
  5. saving the parts as png files or making them 1 sprite atlas
  6. make them sprite screens

I use:

  1. Fraps for video capturing
  2. Photopaint for cutting out parts of picture in avi file and selecting range of frames (in my experience there is a lack of paint programs that allow for loading and editing avi).
  3. VirtualDub for saving the resulting avi file as a range of png pictures
  4. Irfanview for editing files (edit and remove colors etc)
  5. Make sprite screens with Texturepacker
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Indeed, that is Andrzej Kilijański in the video, not me. He has a calmer voice than my presentations :slight_smile:

I’m happy you like the video.

As for the sprite sheet editor: we’re aware of many features we could add it to this, and they will happen at some point :slight_smile: We even have a board with planned features on Sprite Sheet Editor · GitHub , and some more are still on Trello: Trello .

As for loading the video, see the other thread Make sprite sheet out of Avi file - #7 by michalis . Right now we don’t integrate loading the video in sprite sheet editor, as our current solution to videos is using ffmpeg on the command-line internally, which is not efficient for larger videos. So for now, this is not part of the sprite sheet editor – you have to use other application:

  • https://ffmpeg.org/ on the command-line, execute ffmpeg -i my.avi -y -qscale 1 -f image2 image%d.png,

  • or load the image and save to image@counter(1).png in examples/images_videos/simple_video_editor.lpr .

Of course this situation may be improved at some point to have proper support for videos across the board :slight_smile: This means better integration with ffmpeg, as a library – so it’s a bigger task, that needs to be prioritized versus other tasks we have. But it will surely happen at some point, I am watching how people are using CGE on forum and Discord :slight_smile: