Thought I'd share a tool I made for myself.

Working without a game engine, I always run into the problem of trying to create animations out of spritesheets manually and to my frustration never found a free tool to help.

So I decided to make one!

Spritron allows you to define animations on one or multiple spritesheets and then either export each animation separately as an image alongside some animation data, or export a json with instructions on how to reconstruct all the defined animations. 

The exports are explained in more detail in the in-app docs and some code that reads and uses the exports is provided there too (Click on the questionmark on the top right and go from there).

You can also use spritron to create a new spritesheet that combines multiple other spritesheets or that simply suits your needs better.

Let me know if you find bugs.

Hope this is helpful to someone!

StatusReleased
CategoryTool
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorWatersilver
Tags2D, Animation, Open Source, Pixel Art, Sprites, Textures
ContentNo generative AI was used

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I would say that this is the tool I never knew I always needed, but I did need it, I was just too stupid to think to look for it. This is going to be invaluable. I have spent hours hand-crafting jsons. This is amazing.

Glad to hear it!

Yeah hand-crafting jsons is so annoying that making this seemed like the less tiring option. I didn't want to do it again even once lol