How do you create a Texture sheet for use with VFX Graph and Particle System

[ThunderPony]

I created and drew a png of smoke clouds and made them transparent.
smoke particle drawing

Imported the photo into Unity and changed the texture to Sprite.

This answer was helpful for using the sprite editor and creating several sprites out of the image. But I wasn’t able to animate them in the #VFX-Graph as a flipbook. It continues to play all the sprites instead of one individual image after the next.

How do I create a sprite sheet for a 2D character?

Here’s a quick guide to the basics of creating a multi-sprite image and importing it into Unity. Create the image I use Gimp for this, but any decent 2D art tool should be fine. Start with a totally-transparent image. Draw your various sprites in non-overlapping regions on top of the transparency. You can lay them out however you like, it doesn’t matter if you leave huge gaps between the sprites for now, and you don’t have to align them to a grid or anything like that if you don’t want to. …

I tried creating a sprite atlas in unity but wasn’t able to use it.

How do I create a usable sprite texture sheet for animation use in the #VFX-Graph and Particle-System?

[richardkettlewell]

I googled to find you a tutorial, there are a lot to choose from e.g.

Unity Particle System - Texture Sheet Animations in 5 Minutes

(This is for the Particle System, not VFX Graph)

[ThunderPony]

Thanks for you reply and a great reference. It was just what I needed!