Using a two dimensional spritesheet

[kay]

I have a PNG spritesheet I want to use in Phaser.

 

But somehow I'm only able to access the first "row" of it.

 

This is how I tried it:

game.load.spritesheet( 'main', 'res/my_sprite_sheet.png', 32, 32);...game.add.sprite( 10, 10, 'main', 100);

One row only has 30 frames, so I guessed, a bigger number would automatically overflow and lead to the next row.

[rich]

It can read from multiple rows happily but only if you give it a total number of frames to read (the 5th parameter), otherwise it doesn't know when to stop grabbing frames.

[kay]

Ah, I thought with frame height, frame width, image height and image width, it had all the informations to calculate this on its own.

 

Thank you.

[rich]

It almost does, unless the sprite sheet looks like this:

 

http://examples.phaser.io/assets/sprites/metalslug_mummy37x45.png

 

(which is extremely common)

[kay]

So it simply stops at the end of the row, if I don't set a frame count?

 

Strange that I didn't get some "frame doesn't exist" error.

[rich]

No of course not, it will take width, multiply it by the height and use that as the frame total. Which is often wrong and results in blank / empty frames in your animations.

[It's-The-Bat]

Hey this may be an old post, but I seriously need help here. Can anyone tell me how to utilize a spritesheet that looks like this?

https://ichiwamaru.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/zero.png

[Skeptron]

You could use a software like TexturePacker (there's a free version which has more than enough features), which would generate a nice JSON. Phaser can read this JSON and map the spritesheet to it.

[It's-The-Bat]

I have a question that's been itching in my mind for quite some time...how do I use Texture packer when I already have all the sprites in a sprite sheet? Do I have to crop each individual sprite?

[Skeptron]

There are good softwares for cutting the spritesheet into multiple images. Can't remember the name though... =( But I think you can find them pretty easily.

[It's-The-Bat]

Ok, thanks! I'll look into it. If anything else I'll reply back to this topic. Thanks again everyone.