#spritesheet extractor

Sprite sheet TexturePacker Life SAVIOR !!

TexturePacker is an excellent tool for creating or making sprite sheets. It also has a command line version, which works wonderfully with batch processing and integration with Xcode.

When creating 2D games, it’s essential to combine or group up sprites into one large image called sprite sheet or sheets, to get the best performance for games & to improve the load-time.

Wonders of TexturePacker

Supports multiple screen resolutions

It will automatically downscale sprite or sprites for all devices.

Create high-resolution images, scales images, publishes for all devices with a single click.

Reduces runtime memory consumption in huge amount.

It packs multiple sprite sheets at once.

Distribute sprites across multiple sheets.

Sort sprites to multiple texture atlases.

It reduces memory consumption, not image quality.

TexturePacker can directly import file from .psd , .png, .swf, .jpg, .tga, .tiff, .bmp verious extensions.

What is Cocos2d x ?

Cocos2d-x is an open source cross-platform game framework written in C++/Javascript/Lua. It can be used to build games, apps and other interactive programs. Cocos2d contains many branches with the best known being Cocos2d-objc, Cocos2d-x, Cocos2d-html5 and Cocos2d-XNA. There are some independent editors in the cocos2d community, such as those contributing in the areas of SpriteSheet editing, particle editing, font editing and Tilemap editing as well as world editors including SpriteBuilder and CocoStudio.

Features of Cocos2d: Sprites and scenes

All versions of Cocos2d work using the basic primitive known as a sprite. A sprite can be thought of as a simple 2D image, but can also be a container for other sprites. In Cocos2D, sprites are arranged together to form a scene, like a game level or a menu. Sprites can be manipulated in code based on events or actions or as part of animations. The sprites can be moved, rotated, scaled, have their image changed, etc.

GUI

Cocos2D provides primitives to representing common GUI elements in your game scene. This includes things like text boxes, labels, menus, buttons, and other common elements.

Animation

Cocos2D provides basic animation primitives that can work on sprites using a set of actions and timers. They can be chained and composed together to form more complex animations. Most Cocos2D implementations let you manipulate the size, scale, position, and other effects of the sprite. Some versions of Cocos2D let you also animate particle effects, image filtering effects via shaders (warp, ripple, etc.)

Cross Platform

Publish from a single code base to mobile, desktop, web, and console. Cocos2d-x allows developers to focus on building cutting-edge games while it takes care of the heavy lifting on the back-end.

Lightweight & Fast Running

Completely written in C++, the core engine has the smallest footprint, yet the fastest speed of any other game engine, and is optimized for running on all kinds of the devices including low-end Android systems.

Simple & Easy to Learn APIs

Cocos2d-x APIs are created and maintained by industry legend Ricardo Quesada who created the original, super popular Objective-C version. There is a variety of documents, tutorials, and demos to get you started, so dive in and experience Cocos2d-x first hand.

As we can see from above key points cocos2d is very handy software for game devlopment, and the sprites sheets which cocos2d makes that can be editable by using Plist software.

 Below is the link:  

http://store.bluegamerzstudio.com/downloads/spritesheet-plist-editor-for-texture-packer

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The Spritesheets are a very good way of optimising your games. Some people consider it as a security tool for saving their game sprites. But what happens if you loose the key to these locked sprites!!? Many indie developers have faced this issue for long time. In fact loosing data is normal is every game developers life.

Here are few tips as to what you can do in that case:

1: Talk to the support of the respective sprite sheet generator software. i.e Texture Packer, Zwoptex etc. Give them the authenticity of your sprites and they might just come up with a new project file.

2: If your project file was of Texture Packer then you could use one of our tools to edit your sprites in the spritesheet. You can extract or update the spritesheet directly within the software. http://store.bluegamerzstudio.com/downloads/spritesheet-plist-editor-for-texture-packer/

3: If your project file is of some other company like Zwoptex or Unity then you might just wanna try looking at our Spooky Any Spritesheet Extractor And Merger. It works on powerful OpenCV and Java. It can Threshold your transparent PNG files. Which would give you access to your sprites in the sprite sheet. Also the same software could be easily used for Editing the same sprite sheet. Spooky is not 100% accurate as it works solely on Image Processing power. With better quality spritesheets, the results can be flawless.