level sprites advice?

Shydude

hello!

i am making my first level sprite sheet with all the different tiles i want in the level. is there any advice i should know before i import it? does it matter how i arrange the sprites or does it not really matter? should i include the backdrop on the sprite sheet? can i only have 1 sprite sheet for each level or can i add more if i change my mind later?

appreciate the help.

boruok

Main advantage of spritesheet(atlas) is reducing drawcalls for perfomance. Don't worry about this until release and/or you get issues with it. Start with indivial sprites for each level and merge them intro one when release comes (at this point you will already know what sprite used for each level and how optimize them)

boruok

@Shydude, hey, i forgot mention that godot atlas-textures (wich can build within Godot Engine) have at lot of bugs -> https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+atlas I do not recommend for using at current state 15.01.2021 but you can use http://free-tex-packer.com wich can export to Godot as tileset or atlas. I'll post later my verdict. Just interesting how i can handle changes with that tool, for example player has 6 animation sprites, but reduced it into 4 or tileset had 64x240px size and reduced it into 32x128px

boruok

TexturePackerImporter addon actually works with both Texture Packers (Free, Paid). 1. .tres files stores at different folder this is double work, grab from one and place to another. 2. tilesets don't support multiple .tres files, so you must do tilemaps for each 1 tileset. That is huge problem -> https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/35756 3. there is no auto-renaming, if you rename coin.png to coin1.png you will get coin.tres and coin1.tres 4. there is no auto-deleting if you did 3point, go to different folder and delete for yourself. 5. re-importing generated files takes long time even with little changes, renaming, deleting, adding 1 sprite. that is all for now.

Waiting for Godot 4 now, native atlas-texture will be re-written not soon.