Texture packer
- Texture packer is a commercial software for packing textures
- It's free if you don't need to use its advanced features which is good for students use
- Their official website: https://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker/tutorials#none
- Asset used in this tutorial belongs to Konami®
- Suppose your artist has given you a set of sprite images like in this pack : SpritesheetTest.7z (Original sprite ripped by http://www.nes-snes-sprites.com/contra.html)
- You need to first align the textures so that they can be played in sequence using eg: photoshop animation function(very not userfriendly) / Aftereffect / Pencil Aligned AEP.7z, Export the sequence as a set of images.
- Open Texture packer and select EaselJS
- Drag and drop all the images you just prepared into the Texture packer
- Fill in Json and Texture file to the file in which you need to save and then publish texture, you will get one JSON file and a PNG file.