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    • MelideM
      Melide @Aidan_Fire
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      @Aidan-Oxley That would be nice ! Excuse me for the misunderstanding 😅

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      • SplitMindGamingS
        SplitMindGaming @Melide
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        @XxWhiteHearrxX i actually like your idea and its exactly what i was envisioning how it should work.

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        • RobinsonXR
          RobinsonX
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          Imagine the power we would have when we can manipulate custom images. 😮

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          • MurtazaM
            Murtaza Admin @SplitMindGaming
            last edited by Murtaza

            @SplitMindGaming said in Sprite sheet splicer:

            I know this is old but I recently was going through alot of the post to see what hyperpad actually implemented from user feedback and now im starting to lose hope that any of my ideas will get patched through. This splicer idea is actually a really good one. Alot of the game assets you buy online come as a spritesheet without the file. I see hyperpad has the ability to upload spritesheets only if it has a file. Be nice if you can just upload the sprite sheet and tell hyperpad where to cut the margins. Or even have it done automatically. A really good one i use is from code and web texturepacker. They have a side app that lets you split the spritesheet and does a good job finding the margins automatically. But thats a pc software. We really need one for the ipad.

            Texture packer works with hyperPad! All of our built in assets were created with it.
            When exporting in texture packer, select Cocos2D as the output file type and and will generate a plist compatible with hyperPad.

            This is actually why we never got around to implementing this feature, because its pretty low priority as you can do this with many dedicated tools that are better than what we can squeeze in hyperPad.

            The goal of hyperPad is not to make it "fat" with features. We want to to be lean, and robust. We went down the path of adding random features and tools before. And it just makes things bloated, and unused.

            Manipulating images with behaviours is an example of a direction we want to eventually head towards. This gives you the ability to do what you want. But its not something we've started to work on yet. Just the overall goal of hyperPad is to have more low level functionality like this.

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            • SplitMindGamingS
              SplitMindGaming @Murtaza
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              @Murtaza yes but texturepacker requires a pc. One of the main reasons for choosing hyperpad over other software based gaming engines was soley because i got to ditch my computer. Right now my workaround for splicing images is going to the website on safari and using the online generator websites. Which of course are slow and exports them as a zip file. In which zip files can only be extracted in ifiles. But hyperpad currently doesnt import seperate animation files from ifile. So i have to select each image 1 by 1 on ifile and import them to dropbox as dropbox doesnt have a zip file feature. The whole process is crazy. And those steps i mentioned. Im not exaggerating also. Its the exact steps on how i import spritesheets from the web. The next update i think hyperpad has to support importing animation files from the files app so i can ditch dropbox all together.

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              • StanicaS
                Stanica @SplitMindGaming
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                @SplitMindGaming I might be interested in making an app if you say there's nothing like this already! Can you briefly describe the functionality you'd expect from a spritesheet slicer?

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                • SplitMindGamingS
                  SplitMindGaming @Stanica
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                  @Stanica pretty much the same exact thing this website offers for free. https://ezgif.com/sprite-cutter

                  The break down would be to enter in the width and height. It will then cut out the images from each column and export each individual image to a designated folder. It would be nice if it can determine the width and heigh for you automatically such as the side tool for texture packer does. But I will take anything as long as its on an ipad app because that just doesnt exist in the app market. Anyone who makes it would truly be the first.

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                  • SplitMindGamingS
                    SplitMindGaming @Stanica
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                    @Stanica also if you make it for the app store. Simply name it Spritesheet Splicer. It would be found in no time. If u make millions from it i expect a free version from you :)

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                    • StanicaS
                      Stanica @SplitMindGaming
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                      @SplitMindGaming Hahaha noted ;) If ezgif.com worked offline, would that be good enough?

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                      • SplitMindGamingS
                        SplitMindGaming @Stanica
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                        @Stanica yeah that would work as well. But the idea of a dedicated app would be the preferred route.

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                        • KamdroidK
                          Kamdroid @Stanica
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                          @Stanica A feature that could automatically detect the spritesheet dimensions would also be really nice, like detecting via the transparency space between sprites

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