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[Windy]

Windy

[Pre]Sprite Sheet Formatter

Sprite Sheet Formatter

What it does
If the image below doesn't explain it too well, it basically takes a pre-existing sprite sheet, and then it attempts to put it in a form that could be considered "more usable".  This could be quite advantageous when dealing with quite large sheets and those that have a tendency to be badly formatted.

How to use it
In order to split apart separate animations, it gives you a couple of options to choose from.

• How similar their palettes are
• How close the images have to be to each other

It also contains options to allow you to further adjust the end result.

• Frame Alignment
• Frame Addition (from clipboard)
• Frame Removal
• Animation Preview
• Shift Frame Position

etc...

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[Devy]

Devy

Re: [Pre]Sprite Sheet Formatter

nice i dea 

[Sophist]

Sophist

Re: [Pre]Sprite Sheet Formatter

not bad
so its advanced?

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[Sir Cyrus]

Sir Cyrus

Re: [Pre]Sprite Sheet Formatter

Ha, nice idea.
But we still need what I said, a tileset maker.
Basically it'd take an image, split it up into, say, 16x16 blocks, delete any repeated tiles and then allow you to format them. It'd be a tad difficult to code, especially removing duplicated tiles, but it'd help so much.

[Windy]

Windy

Re: [Pre]Sprite Sheet Formatter

Ha, nice idea.
But we still need what I said, a tileset maker.
Basically it'd take an image, split it up into, say, 16x16 blocks, delete any repeated tiles and then allow you to format them. It'd be a tad difficult to code, especially removing duplicated tiles, but it'd help so much.

Been done more than once, I'm trying something different.

[AoDC]

AoDC

Re: [Pre]Sprite Sheet Formatter

Your tools never cease to amaze me.

the a o d c

[Moon_child]

Moon_child

Re: [Pre]Sprite Sheet Formatter

Looks good! so is it written in C++?

[TheDarkJay]

TheDarkJay

Re: [Pre]Sprite Sheet Formatter

Looks cool.

The tiler idea wouldn't be that hard to do.

Split an image into many images in a list format
Run through every item in the list and check if any items with the same pixel data exist, if you find a match remove the match from the list.
Combine the list into one image again
Save the image as a .bmp

You could do that using C++ using Allegro easily (In theory), and DirectX in theory wouldn't be any/much harder if you knew what you were doing...I'd try it if I knew how to compare Windows BITMAP structs to see if they were the same...

[Sophist]

Sophist

Re: [Pre]Sprite Sheet Formatter

Ha, nice idea.
But we still need what I said, a tileset maker.
Basically it'd take an image, split it up into, say, 16x16 blocks, delete any repeated tiles and then allow you to format them. It'd be a tad difficult to code, especially removing duplicated tiles, but it'd help so much.

if youd explain that in more detail to me i could write it into my spriting app (ssedit)
sorry for being off topic

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[TheDarkJay]

TheDarkJay

Re: [Pre]Sprite Sheet Formatter

I think the idea is to divide an image into many 16*16 tiles, and compare them all. Remove any duplicate tiles (any tiles which are the same) and bring them back together into a new image.

[Sir Cyrus]

Sir Cyrus

Re: [Pre]Sprite Sheet Formatter

Gonzo. I asked you to do that, but you saw no use for it...but NOW you care?!
Basically it'd split an image up into tiles with sizes of your choice, e.g. 16x16 or 32x32. Then it'd get rid of any tiles that are the same. It'd also help if you could move the tiles around, aligned to the grid, so you could lay out the tileset how you want.

EDIT: Sorry for the bump, but I don't think Windy has mentioned his TileSet Optimizer yet. You can find it on the Binary Phoenix website, I'm trying it out now.