Hi there,
I wanted to share a little method for creating animated sprite sheets.
I had trouble creating them for RastaMonkey so I made a little research for the best tools and I found the amazing imagemagick.
first you’ll need to install imagemagick -
http://www.smudge-it.co.uk/pub/imagemagick/www/binary-releases.html#macosx
then after following the instructions there.
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Open terminal
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type these commands :
export MAGICK_HOME="$HOME/ImageMagick-6.4.3"
export PATH="$MAGICK_HOME/bin:$PATH"
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$MAGICK_HOME/lib"
just to make it find to correct path (I am sure there is a way to skip this step but I never bothered looking)
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paste an image sequence to a folder , f.e folder “convert” under the username, name the files with a prefix and a follow number, like img001.jpg , img002.jpg…
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type
cd convert
5.then type: (change “-geometry 256x256” “-tile 8x8” if neccesary)
montage -background "transparent" -depth 8 -type TrueColorMatte *.png -geometry 256x256 -tile 8x8 -matte -transparent "transparent" -type TrueColorMatte -depth 8 spriteSheet1.png
That’s it, you’ll have a spriteSheet file there all ready.
you can repeat phase 5 over and over if you just replace the files inside the “convert” folder.
I hope this will come in handy to some of you ,
Good luck