Sprite sheets?

naynay521

Hey, what would be a good program to convert sprite sheets into separate images? I tried using the image editing program pixelmator, but it's hard to keep the sprites from looking weird when put in an animation, often resulting in size changes and shaky animations. Help would greatly be appreciated.

dereklarue

I just use MS paint lol.
Or you can use GIMP 2 (http://www.gimp.org/)

JGary321

Personally what I do is this:

In Photoshop you can have Grid lines. I set the Grid lines to 32 x 32 (the size of most sprites)

I copy the whole Sprite from grid line to grid line. I paste that in a 32 x 32 file and save as web. Then just use a 32 x 32 actor in the game.

Alternative: Make sure under the actor you have fixed for width and height and set the actor to be 32 x 32.

Either will work, I'm just partially OCD

scorelessmusic

If you're using Photoshop, you can even record your Actions and make it a macro command or script for repetitive actions.