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Sketchanie
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May 3, 2018
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Slicing a sprite sheet into their own layers?

  • May 3, 2018
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Hi there,

I want to animate a sprite sheet I made in photoshop, but I don't want to have to go through each frame and cut paste it, since there are quite a few frames.

I was wondering if anyone knew the easiest way to slice the frames up and put them on their own respective layer?

Also should mention I want to animate this in photoshop, so I'd rather not have to export and save a thousand different images.

Really appreciate any advice, thanks

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Silkrooster
Silkrooster
Legend
May 3, 2018

Maybe you could explain what you are trying to do as a finished product. Sprite sheets are normally used in another program that supports sprite sheets and can move along image to image without having to do any slicing.

That said, in the automate sub-menu in the file menu is crop and straighten. It was designed to allow someone to scan multiple picture at once on a flatbed and it would crop each image to actual size and place it on its own layer then move on to next image on the sheet.

Knowing this, crop and straighten could just as easily be used on a sprite sheet, since it is the same principle.

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SketchanieAuthor
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May 4, 2018

I just want to animate the sprite sheet into a gif that runs each little walk, jump, run, etc in a continuous cycle. It's for a mod I made, so I need it to demo the character in motion so that people who are interested can decided if it's something they want to download. I'm not looking to make it a playable entity or anything. Hope that helps

I did try the crop and straighten technique, but it had very undesirable effects, such as cutting in the wrong place and opening so many tabs I was afraid my PS would crash.

Silkrooster
Silkrooster
Legend
May 4, 2018

I think After effects can import sprite sheets not sure, but that should allow you to export a gif.
That said, if this is for the web, then a sprite sheet maybe the way to go. Since CSS can manipulate a sprite sheet. It has been a long time, so I may not be the best person to ask how to do that. But the Flash animate forum, After effects forum or the Dreamweaver forum, may know of a solution. I mention flash as I believe that can import a sprite sheet as well.

Sorry I wish my memory was better than it is.

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