Png to one walkcycle png

Alphavader

Hey folks,

so iam working on a little sidescroller right now
and my task is to build animations in 3d -
render them out and put it all in one png.
Iam looking for a tool or programm that
puts my 25 frame walkcycle animation to
one png. (Frame one to 25 - left to right)
Its really frustrating to do this all by hand.

Thanks.

.morph3us

guess you'd either need to render a lot of pngs and set them together at runtime or use gifs...

can pngs even hold animations?

google is my friend and he says: "No, it can't, at least not nativly!"

http://www.instantfundas.com/2009/07/4-free-tools-to-create-animated-png.html

really, that was a 30 seconds google search...

Ben Apuna

Maybe this thread: Sprite Animation Contact Sheet Application

Mark Dygert

Yep they're probably wanting an image strip, the thread Ben pointed out has a bunch of different apps that can get that done. My personal favorite is XnView followed by Glue-It.

Alphavader

ohh that seems to what iam looking for.
Thank you so much
Do you know about a sprite render plugin/script for Maya ?
(Spritetools doesnt work quite well and the other
one is for mac )

Ben Apuna

You should be able to just parent a camera to each character and render out the frames.

If your sprites are really small you may want to turn off anti aliasing.

Elyaradine

A guy at work wrote a program called Unchaos, which takes a bunch of frames, optionally crops out the blank areas, sticks them on a sprite sheet, and spits out a file with their coordinates.

It's nothing fancy, but I think it's really straight-forward.

http://www.diorgo.com/v1/?tag=unchaos