How do i turn of anti-aliasing in adobe animate

[mrmanpersonguydude]

im tryna export a spritesheet in animate cc 2022 but i wanna make it not have anti aliasing. how do i turn it off when exporting

[kglad]

in the as3 publish settings for png and gif you can disable smoothing.  

i'm not sure what format your using for your sprite sheet, but probably png and i assume you're using an as3 project.

try it.  i haven't tested.

[mrmanpersonguydude]

yep, im using as3 and png. can you show me an image of where the as3 publish settings are though? i dont see them in the export spritesheet menu thing

[mrmanpersonguydude]

also my bad i meant generate spritesheet

[kglad]

click file > publish settings > png > untick "smooth"

[mrmanpersonguydude]

i am using this menu instead.

[kglad]

i understand.  that's how to generate a sprite sheet.

what i'm suggesting is to test that publish setting to see if it has an effect on your sprite sheet.  i know it may not, but it may.  and it's pretty easy to try...

[mrmanpersonguydude]

so, do i just click public and then export the spritesheet?

[kglad]

public?

what/where is public?

[mrmanpersonguydude]

i meant publish oops

[kglad]

click file (top left of animate)>publish settings 

[mrmanpersonguydude]

i know where to find publish settings

[kglad]

again,

click file > publish settings > png > untick "smooth"

[mrmanpersonguydude]

then what

[kglad]

then export your sprite sheet as a png and see if there's a difference.  (though @rayek.elfin is doubtful.)

[rayek.elfin]

That Smooth setting hasn't worked properly for a long time now. It has no effect on the export.

Just tested it, and it doesn't work.

Also refer to

https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/animate-cc-pixel-art/td-p/10755317

[rayek.elfin]

It hasn't worked for a long time.

There is a workaround if you render to video and use AS3 (which seems to be the case here):

If you're rendering to video you can do that with code. Go to the timeline and put this into frame 1 Actions:

stage.quality = "low"

When you test the SWF or export to video it will be aliased.

Source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/adobeanimate/comments/t3vu3h/anti_aliasing_on_lines/

[kglad]

render a sprite sheet to video?  how to you do that?

[rayek.elfin]

Just tested it, and it works!

Place that stage.quality = "low" on a new action script layer in the first keyframe.

Then: Export --> Export Video/Media

Use the following settings (resolution is your choice, of course):

This will generate separate frames of your animation as PNG files with aliased edges.

It will NOT work with the Generate Sprite Sheet function in Animate CC, which means you will have to create your sprite sheet in a different tool.

I prefer https://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker

Btw, older versions accepted SWF files with an addon and would convert to aliased sprites, but even the TexturePacker developers have stopped SWF support.

[Mario_CR]

Go to the library panel, select the bitmaps, right-click, properties, set compression to lossless/gif and uncheck smoothing. This method will work with the spritesheet generator.

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[rayek.elfin]

@Mario_CR That method only seems to work for bitmaps, though. Not for vector assets.

[Mario_CR]

That's correct, the OP is using bitmaps.

[rayek.elfin]

You know, I wondered about that. The OP's screenshot shows two photos of a plate of food. That is not typically an export target that requires aliased output. Pixel art animations do, however.

Which is why I assumed the OP was using those merely as demo images rather than showing their actual work file.

[kglad]

i didn't pay attention to that screenshot before.  i figured the op knew what they were doing, but after checking it more carefully and seeing 4 frames in that sprite sheet, i'm not so sure about that now.

[mrmanpersonguydude]

yeah they were demo images, what i was doing was vector art though.