My need is to cut this sprite up into 4 sections, each 512x512. I was thikning I could use the Sprite Editor, which I may be but when I do create a slice and hit Apply, no new file is found.
So, is Sprite Editor best for this, or Photoshop and where did the new Sprite file go?!
Yes, so after slicing and hitting Apply in the Sprite Editor, you will be able to find your sprite slices grouped inside your sliced texture in the Project window. This helpful tutorial Cut images in the Sprite Editor Unity shows exactly that at timestamp [02:58]. It also demonstrates how to select any of the sliced sprites to drag-and-drop them in the Scene.
Small tip: If you have many sliced sprites, consider multi-selecting the ones you want, then holding down the alt key (or the opt key on Mac) while dragging them into the Scene. This brings in all the selected sprites in one click.
Alternatively, you may also select the entire texture, also holding down the alt/opt key then drag it into the Scene to bring in all of the sliced sprites from the texture. In both cases, holding down the alt/opt key is to prevent Unity from creating a flipbook animation sequence out of the sliced sprites which may be what users want sometimes just not in this case. Hope this helps!
However I have another question regarding this topic:
When I drag and drop multiple sprites into the scene using alt key, they all appear in the same position (0,0,0), however since I am creating a puzzle game, my texture is divided into multiple sprites and it would be a huge time saver if the sprites would automatically form the same picture that I have in the sprite editor. In case of the picture that renman3000 posted - it has only 4 sprites, and it’s pretty easy to relocate the sprites back into their initial positions, but in my case I have 50+, 100+, 200+ sprites per image and it’s pretty much time consuming to manually relocate each sprite to it’s initial position.
Is there a way to just do it in a matter of few clicks?