dave
May 15, 2018, 4:46pm
#1
Hello all,
We’re testing two new features on PlayCanvas and would like some volunteers to help. If you want to have the new features described below enabled. Reply below with your PlayCanvas username and we’ll enable it for your account.
Please send any feedback on the features to support@playcanvas.com
Sprites
Support for creating multiple sprites out of texture atlases.
Animated “flip-book” style sprites.
9-sliced user interface elements
Two new asset types: Texture Atlas Asset and Sprite Asset
One new component: Sprite Component
Checkpoints
Create checkpoints to save the current state of your project
Revert back to a previous checkpoint and resume development
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Wow, this is very nice but I wonder if I can upload a sprite sheet from Aseprite to the PlayCanvas sprite editor.
SHADOWELITE7
vaios
May 15, 2018, 6:43pm
#5
I don’t know what the output of Aseprite is but we do support the json format of TexturePacker.
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can these other types of files work
vaios
May 15, 2018, 6:56pm
#7
The texture atlas is an image so that’s what you need. The texture packer format is for defining the frames. We don’t support any other formats.
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Is this the official site to texturepacker @vaios
That’s nice, I was just testing animated sprites for a project today!
Username: marcofx
CrazyFolker / GAME_SKINNERS ( one is my user account, the other is the organisation account )
Your playcanvas username is crazyfolker
swh
May 17, 2018, 3:20am
#16
I want to test these features too!
Username: swh
The checkpoint feature is great, but it seems to incur quite an overhead on storage.
I made a single checkpoint on an existing project, and the size went from 0.82Gb to 1.26Gb
Yessiree
dave
May 17, 2018, 9:54pm
#20
The initial checkpoint for a project is the largest as it takes a complete copy. Later checkpoints will only store changes so will not be as big.
We’ll be updating storage limits to mitigate for the increased storage requirements for checkpoints.
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Nice :-), please include me.
