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Offline Merick

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image joiner

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.

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Re: image joiner

Reply #1 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?
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Re: image joiner

Reply #2 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.
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Re: image joiner

Reply #3 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)
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Re: image joiner

Reply #4 on: November 14, 2007, 05:04:10 pm
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.

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Re: image joiner

Reply #5 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.
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Re: image joiner

Reply #6 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

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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
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Re: image joiner

Reply #7 on: November 16, 2007, 11:11:57 am
Promotion can do this very easily and fast, but it costs a bit.
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