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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Merick on November 14, 2007, 02:15:13 am

Title: image joiner
Post by: Merick on November 14, 2007, 02:15:13 am

Anyone know of a good freeware image joiner that can take a bunch  of seperate image files and join them into a single file for use as a tilesheet? I've tried doing some searches with google and ask.com, but none of the results have been of any help.

Title: Re: image joiner
Post by: Sherman Gill on November 14, 2007, 05:15:46 am

Any basic graphic editing program, Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+V ?
Pretty simple, just make a huge canvas, bigger then you probably need, and copy paste them close enough that there's not a border between them?

Title: Re: image joiner
Post by: sharprm on November 14, 2007, 09:50:30 am

This guy once asked me to do that for a tonne of animated sprites. I didn't do it becuase it would be friggin tedious. Interested to know if there is a program that can do that,
take an animated gif and convert it into a sprite sheet.

Title: Re: image joiner
Post by: ndchristie on November 14, 2007, 11:36:10 am

gif movie gear etc can save as filmstrip (with adjustable dimensions) once you've pasted in order.  it's not a huge step up from copy-paste, but it saves you layout headaches

IDraw3 you will also need to copy-paste, but the unit grid function (activated by holding ctrl or by setting up in options) is a pixel-perfect method of alignment (as opposed to photoshop's neither-here-nor-there grid system)

Title: Re: image joiner
Post by: baccaman21 on November 14, 2007, 05:04:10 pm

Quote from: sharprm on November 14, 2007, 09:50:30 am

This guy once asked me to do that for a tonne of animated sprites. I didn't do it becuase it would be friggin tedious. Interested to know if there is a program that can do that,
take an animated gif and convert it into a sprite sheet.

d'yer not use promotion sharp?? Another one of those "wouldn't it be good if" features it has...

Title: Re: image joiner
Post by: sharprm on November 14, 2007, 09:38:06 pm

Don't have promotion because I'm so cheap. Ill keep those programs in mind if i need to do strips again. Thanks for the answer.

Title: Re: image joiner
Post by: Merick on November 14, 2007, 11:12:13 pm

I actually did start with the cut & paste method, but that got old real fast and I've got over 200 images that I want to put together into a set of tilesheets

*edit*

I just found an easy way to do this. It's actually two programs that you can get from this page: http://www.edgelib.com/index.php?node=download

First is the "Animation Strip Maker", which can take a bunch of files and join them into a strip. Then by running the result from that through the "Tile Scanner" program, it can take the strip image and turn it into a square tilesheet

Title: Re: image joiner
Post by: ptoing on November 16, 2007, 11:11:57 am

Promotion can do this very easily and fast, but it costs a bit.