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I made a Unity Extension for editing sprite animations

We do a lot of sprite animation (well… Barney does) so I made a swanky tool to make it nicer to edit them in Unity!

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It means we can edit animations without having to fiddle around with unity’s convoluted animation system that’s built for much more complicated 3d games. Also I realised making tools like this is really pretty fun!

So if you’re a Unity developer check it out here:

Unity Asset Store Link

-Dave

  1. Addertongue (Jamais Namme or Xoac103)

    Cool! I’m no dev (much more adept at literary arts and, well, art), but I think my brother would certainly enjoy this.

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  2. Hm, cool. I’m just getting into unity so this should be cool.

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  3. Oliver

    Oh wow, this should be part of Unity 2D. Great job!

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  4. Don't Wanna

    Dave you’re alive!

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      • Addertongue (Jamais Namme or Xoac103)

        By the way, we TOTALLY need this teddy bear as a CRAWL monster. Like, a statue, most likely. All he does is give hugs, and displace the hero (preferably into traps or other monsters)- it would be hilarious.

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  5. Can I also use this with Unity GUI (Canvas Renderer) or only with the default Sprite Renderer?

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    • In the current version you can’t, but I have it working in an updated version i’m about to submit to the asset store. If you email with your invoice number I’ll send you a copy so you don’t have to wait for unity to approve the update 😉

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  6. I wish photoshop had this, their system is horrible 🙁
    (even with anim desin plugins, custom actions, etc)

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  7. Dave I want to hear more about this! Can you and Barney talk about your workflow together some time?

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  8. Hi! Love the product, it’s so painless compared to unity’s in-built! I can’t actually properly express how many hours of work this is going to save me and how delighted I am!

    I’m not sure if this is the right place to take this (If I don’t hear back, I’ll try email or whatever)- but Unity’s throwing up a lot of casual warnings about PS-A, but nothing build-breaking…yet? Should I be worried about this? Will a patch be coming?

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    • Thanks Rex! Sorry I didn’t notice this comment until now. PSA’s just been updated to v1.5 so hopefully that fixes the warnings, but if not can you tell me what version of unity you’re using? I might need to check that version.

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  10. This asset is triple A quality, life improving, excellent. I would buy it again if I could. I would pay more if I had to. Every pixel artist and frame animator working in unity needs this tool. If you haven’t gotten it the get it yesterday, if not sooner.

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  11. Our artists often send us spritesheets containing sprites with different sizes and wild layout. Therefore, we often have to adjust the offset/position of single sprites for using them in an animation.
    It would be great and very helpful if you could provide a feature to do this in your tool.
    Further, it would be great to have multiple sprites per animation frame.
    I saw that some other guy on the asset store requested this too, so I strongly second this.

    All the best
    Martin

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