For anyone wanting to set per-sprite pivot points defined in TexturePacker for spritesheets, I’ve created a custom exporter for TexturePacker that enables that feature.
I’ve tested this with Starling for OpenFL, but in theory, it should also work in Starling for ActionScript 3.0.
It seems that you are using “ps” for drawing, so you are using “TexturePackerGUI”. For me, I use “Animate” to create animations and export them directly to the “starling” texture gallery, and “Animate” also supports anchor points
One can use this whether they use Animate, PhotoShop, Inkscape, Gimp, (anything) to create their sprite assets. If one wants to continue to leverage the advantages of using TexturePacker, they now can with added pivot point support.
Thanks for reporting this @785597448, I appreciate it.
I’ve now fixed that.
Good morning, I have re downloaded and resolved this issue. Thank you
Good morning
May I ask what’s going on?
Why can’t I see your ‘exporter’ anymore?
Export directory:
D:/360极速浏览器X下载/starling-texturepacker-exporter-main/exporters/Starling-Advanced
I reinstalled the “win10” system and tried to reset the export directory, but it didn’t display your exporter. Do you remember setting it this way before?
copy the Starling-Advanced directory and paste it into the custom exporters directory you defined above. Then start, or restart TexturePacker.
I set up this directory: ‘Starling Advanced’
Try pointing the exporters folder to:
D:/360极速浏览器X下载/starling-texturepacker-exporter-main/exporters
Don’t include the /Starling-Advanced in the path.
Also of note, my screenshot example has forward slashes / in the path. That’s a Linux and OSX convention. On Windows it’s going to be back slashes \ in the path.
D:\360极速浏览器X下载\starling-texturepacker-exporter-main\exporters
Thank you for your response. I have set the export directory to “D:/360 Speed Browser X Download/storage texturepacket exporter main/exporters”
Now it can be used normally, thank you very much
By the way, have these exported ‘XML’ data been tested to ensure there are no issues?
It works when I’ve tested, but if you discover an issues, please let me know.
One issue brought to my attention by the TexturePacker team, is that it always exports the pivot points (even if just the default 0,0).
I don’t consider that a problem really, but it does add a bit more content to the XML file that might not always be necessary.
Thank you for your response. I understand now,
Your ‘exporter’ is great, thank you for your contribution ..
TexturePacker 7.10.0 has now updated the Starling exporter, to support pivot points natively.
So if not requiring ATF support (TexturePacker 6.0.1), then you should be able to use the latest version of TexturePacker without any custom exporter with pivot point support.
Hello, I just opened “TexturePackerGUI” and received an update notification. I noticed in the picture that “TexturePackerGUI” now supports “starling” anchor points. Is this the same thing as the custom exporter in your post? Have you given your custom exporter to the official “TexturePackerGUI”?
Is the support anchor mentioned in the above picture using your exporter?
I shared what I had made with the Code and Web team, but I’m not sure if it was exactly used, or perhaps just referenced.
I didn’t have the original Starling exporter to reference when I created this. Because of that actually, if anything I offered it with some caution, in case my custom extension might introduce bugs into their official software. I would have felt more confident if I’d updated an existing extension.
In short though, we helped them (with a Starling for AS3 tutorial) help us (with updated Starling exporter).
Have you updated to the latest version of TexturePackerGUI?
I haven’t yet. The package maintainer for texturepacker under the Linux distro I use, hasn’t updated it yet (I flagged that with them a few days ago), and I haven’t had a pressing need to use it at the moment. Manually updating it is simple enough though, if I need to.
Why, everything ok?
No problem, I’m just asking casually
