Comments for richardjdare.com http://richardjdare.com/blog Games, Ideas, Imagination Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on AtlasMaker 0.7 – Make Texture Atlases in Photoshop by hdennison http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/#comment-28827 hdennison Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:09:32 +0000 http://richardjdare.com/blog/?p=559#comment-28827 It would be lovely, I’m using this for more than a year and it’s the only reason why I have Photoshop installed.

]]> Comment on AtlasMaker 0.7 – Make Texture Atlases in Photoshop by admin http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/#comment-28714 admin Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:12 +0000 http://richardjdare.com/blog/?p=559#comment-28714 Hi Harold, Im glad you like AtlasMaker. I’m afraid I have never used fireworks in my life! I will look into it and see what I can find out.
If it uses a similar scripting system to photoshop, it might be possible to port it.

]]> Comment on AtlasMaker 0.7 – Make Texture Atlases in Photoshop by hdennison http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/#comment-28706 hdennison Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:31:05 +0000 http://richardjdare.com/blog/?p=559#comment-28706 This is really awesome, great tool!

Any chance to get it running on Adobe Fireworks?

]]> Comment on AtlasMaker 0.7 – Make Texture Atlases in Photoshop by admin http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/#comment-28482 admin Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:59:28 +0000 http://richardjdare.com/blog/?p=559#comment-28482 Hi Tonio, thanks for your comment.

You could put all your images into a directory and have AtlasMaker create an atlas for you. If you want to use the rectangle packing code in your own script, take a look at /include/RectanglePacker.js. Its pretty self-contained, though the sorting takes place elsewhere (/include/Sorters.jsx)

Also, the AtlasMaker export file can contain any text, JSON, XML, whatever. Just put the tags (#width, #height etc.) where you need them and AtlasMaker will do the rest. Let me know if you have any problems.

Richard

]]> Comment on AtlasMaker 0.7 – Make Texture Atlases in Photoshop by Tonio Loewald http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/#comment-28464 Tonio Loewald Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:54:01 +0000 http://richardjdare.com/blog/?p=559#comment-28464 Thank you very much for providing this tool. It looks to me like the crucial part (from my perspective) is the rectangle packing component. I have a Photoshop script that will break up a Photoshop document into images based on image groups and the thing it really needs to do now is turn them into an image atlas. The other thing I’d like to do is store the metadata as JSON rather than XML.

]]> Comment on AtlasMaker 0.7 – Make Texture Atlases in Photoshop by admin http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/#comment-27166 admin Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:19:03 +0000 http://richardjdare.com/blog/?p=559#comment-27166 Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the info, its all good :)

You know, I have only tested AtlasMaker with 24bit rgb images, as that’s all I use in my own projects. I will have to go away and try other formats.

I will do some experiments with locked layers. AtlasMaker is supposed to be able to handle locked layers, background layers etc. maybe I overlooked something.

All this information is really helpful, thanks..

Richard

]]> Comment on AtlasMaker 0.7 – Make Texture Atlases in Photoshop by admin http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/#comment-27164 admin Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:08:54 +0000 http://richardjdare.com/blog/?p=559#comment-27164 Hi Kevin, thanks for letting me know. I’ll see what I can find out. I Got a few questions that might help with debugging :)

What format are your images?

Does Atlasmaker work for you with other images? have you tried making a folder with a couple of simple jpegs in?

The photoshop scripting system is a bit clunky. Sometimes I have had problems just like this, which went away after restarting photoshop.

Can you try running the script from ExtendScript Toolkit? (comes with photoshop). It might give us some helpful error messages or show us where the problem is.

Just open AtlasMaker.jsx in Extendscript Toolkit and click the green “play” button to run it, with photoshop open at the same time.

Thanks again, I hope we can fix this problem
Richard

]]> Comment on AtlasMaker 0.7 – Make Texture Atlases in Photoshop by Kevin http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/#comment-27163 Kevin Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:02:27 +0000 http://richardjdare.com/blog/?p=559#comment-27163 Solved again by using 24bits PNG’s instead of 8… sorry for the spamming.

]]> Comment on AtlasMaker 0.7 – Make Texture Atlases in Photoshop by Kevin http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/#comment-27162 Kevin Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:53:03 +0000 http://richardjdare.com/blog/?p=559#comment-27162 Solved by manually “unlocking” the only layer of all my PNG’s (colors set to RGB then unlock and save). Strange…

]]> Comment on AtlasMaker 0.7 – Make Texture Atlases in Photoshop by Kevin http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/#comment-27158 Kevin Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:10:46 +0000 http://richardjdare.com/blog/?p=559#comment-27158 Hi Richard,
Since AtlasMaker is a gift you make to the world, I can’t really ask for support, but anyway I’m doing it because your tool sounds fabulous :)
My problem: AtlasMaker generate an empty image in photoshop and open the first image of the folder, that’s all.
My try: I use two 177x64px images, I’ve tried different options (merge, background, etc…) but nothing works.
My configuration: OSX lion, topshop 5.1

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