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Making Sprite-sheets?

by Carpenter Software · in Torque Game Builder · 02/27/2008 (5:35 pm) · 9 replies

I am presently using a 3D animation program to create an image sequence. Then place those images into photoshop to create the sprite-sheets. It would be nice to use Contact Sheet II to automate the sprite-sheets, but it does not create the alpha channel. Is there any one here uses Contact Sheet II in Photoshop CS3?

If I use the "copy and paste" method the selection boundary does not remain the same size from copy to paste. Weird! So I place a stroke around the alpha-channeled image, then copy and paste. It works but it is time consuming because I have to erase the stroke from the image.

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Torque Owner Stanley D Chatman
#1
02/28/2008 (11:56 am)
There is a package called GlueIt that may work for you.

Here is the link to a previous thread about GlueIt:

www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=29466

Torque Owner Carpenter Software
#2
02/28/2008 (1:57 pm)
Thanks Stanley

I use a Mac but I also am using Windows XP SP2 on the same computer. I cannot get over the idea that I can do this on the same computer. So I switched over to windows and downloaded GlueIt. After that I went back to Mac OS and transfered the images over to the windows' volume (icon HDD) onto the Windows' Desktop. Then went back to windows to make a Sprite Sheet from those images by using GlueIt. Wow it was a snap. I saved the new file (with alpha channel) on the windows desktop. I then went back to Mac OS to transfer the file to the Mac desktop. No Problem....

Carpenter Software

Torque Owner Matt Van Gorkom
#3
03/12/2008 (6:08 pm)
I too develop on a Mac. I use Spriteliner though it appears it's no longer supported by its developer.

Jesse Skellington
#4
10/30/2009 (8:19 pm)
Hi,

Are you still using GlueIt or did you get PS working to make your Sprite-sheets? I'm having the same issue too with Photoshop CS4 Extended. I would not like to use any other program other than PS.

Thanks :-)

John Slater
#5
12/04/2009 (4:47 pm)
Nevermind, i found it.

Associate Mike Lilligreen
Retired T2Der
#6
12/04/2009 (4:57 pm)
Really? I just went to the website and was able to download it without a problem.

Jesse Skellington
#7
12/04/2009 (5:06 pm)
Give this a-go :-)

http://sysimage.250free.com/glueit1.06.zip

or this


http://sysimage.250free.com/

Cheers
-=Jesse=-
P.S. If this does not work for you let me know and we can work something else out :-)

John Slater
#8
12/04/2009 (5:24 pm)
It was actually an issue in Opera for some reason, sorry that I posted its unavailable. In Opera it just says it can't find the file on the webspace so I figured it got deleted and I didn't find any mirrors on google. Tried it with Firefox and now it works. Thank you guys.

Torque Owner Will Burton
ILL Games
#9
12/04/2009 (9:27 pm)
I had the same problem with images from 3ds max. I wrote the following tool to help me. Source is posted as well as the executable in the link.

http://gh33da.com/wordpress/?p=22