The sprite editor won't let me slice

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Hello! i imported a sprite sheet that i made using Photoshop CS6 and the unity sprite editor won’t let me slice. the slice button is there, but it is semi transparent and won’t let me click on it. I tried importing the image as both a .jpg and a .png. Can anyone tell me if there is anything else I need to do. Sorry if this is obvious but I am a beginner. Thank You!

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I have just started using unity myself. I was wondering the same thing but I believe I found the solution! What you need to do is select the sprite you’d like to slice, and in the “Inspector” tab change the “Sprite Mode” to multiple! Hope this helps anyone who stumbles upon this question! :slight_smile:

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Make Sure your Sprite mode is Multiple and not single.

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I had the similar issue. Unity will revert the sprite mode back to the “Single” mode automatically even though I have selected the “Multiple” mode. I managed to solve this issue by changing the sprite mode in the normal mode. Apparently, you cannot save your changed sprite when when you are in the debug mode.

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As mentioned above:

  • set texture type to: Sprite(2D and UI);
  • sprite mode to: Multiple;
  • for me the problem was that my image had tiny 1pixel thick frame, everything was transparent inside the frame and around the separate images but that small frame was preventing Unity from doing its job. So make sure youre image is transparent (white and gray checker as a background), and that there is no frame/border.
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If that doesn’t work try to revert the unity layout to the default one:

Window > Layouts > Revert Factory Settings…

That worked for me.

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Make sure your set to sprite mode and not Texture mode. Then select the multiple dropdown and apply.

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same problem for me but nothing gonna work

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This is amazingly helpful! Thank you

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Hi! I had a similar problem. In my case, the editor didn’t save the ‘Sprite Mode’ field modification. So, every time I opened it the field was ‘Single’. To fixed it I made an empty new Sprite, by default the field was in ‘Multiple’, and then edit the new sprite in GIMP to add my Sprite. With this, I was able to do it. I hope this can help someone!