a free sprite sheet maker ?

Hi. .does someone knows a good sprite sheet make for 2d tiles animations?..

i have found TexturePackerGUI but is paid...

 

Try the "lite" version of GameMaker.
It has a fairly good and easy to use sprite editor and you can also export the sprite sheet.

GameMaker for Windows - http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/windows
GameMaker for Mac - http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/mac

 

Try http://www.texturepacker.com - if you don't use the pro features you should be fine.

 

Thanks both, i will give a try..

 

If you need help with TexturePacker just contact me.

 

I think you will find these useful:

http://www.bottomap.com/Software/A4B/A4B.html

http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/download.html

http://www.varcade.com/blog/?p=206

You can find useful as well , in certain matter, http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net , for some things related to this.

 

Oh, and maybe this one, too :

http://www.spriteland.com/sprites/sprite-maker.htm

yet I haven't found the time to test that one.

 

Recently i've made a review for animation software aswell for sprite animators, it might be helpfull for you.

Adobe Flash
Bone-based: no
Key frame concept: yes
Sprite sheet rendering: no
OS: ?

Anime Studio software is used mainly for cartoons drawing.
Bone-based: yes
Key frame concept: ?
Sprite sheet rendering: no
OS: Win, Mac

ProMotion software is used for drawing of a detailed and pixel precise graphics. http://www.cosmigo.com/promotion/index.php
Bone-based: no
Key frame concept: no
Sprite sheet rendering: no
OS: ?

GraphicsGale is a simple raster animation editor for .gif and .avi animations. http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/
Bone-based: no
Key frame concept: no
Sprite sheet rendering: no
OS: Win

ASE (Allegro Sprite Editor) is a pixel art raster sprite editor. http://www.aseprite.org/
Bone-based: no
Key frame concept: no
Sprite sheet rendering: ?
OS: ?

Anatomy is sprite animation software for 2D game development that doesn't require any drawing skills. http://spritetools.com/
Bone-based: yes
Key frame concept: yes
Sprite sheet rendering: yes
OS: all

List of drag and drop sprite sheets creators that use another sprite sheets or frames:
Zwoptex, $15 http://www.zwopple.com/zwoptex/
Predator, $15 http://spritesheeteditor.com/
Simple sprite editor http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplespriteedi/

list of 2D Map rendering software:
Dungeon Crafter - is a small freeware program that lets you lay down walls, floors, doors, and objects. http://ww2.dungeoncrafter.com/
Tile Studio - Tile Studio is a complete development utility for graphics of tile-based games. http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/
Tiled Map Editor is another free map editor. http://www.mapeditor.org/

Good luck

 

I know this thread is rather old but I thought I'd add this in hopes its helpful if someone is still looking for a helpful 2d sprite generator.

I've built a free web based sprite generation tool which might be helpful for some users that need to pull together individual 2d images into an optimized power of 2 sprite downloadable texture. There are a number of options (including a JSON export for scripting) but it should be helpful to pull animations together or to build any kind of sprite texture sheet that works with Unity.

https://www.facetstudios.com/sprite-generator/

 

I uploaded 25 png textures (512 *512) but nothing happened on download. Is it doing something in the background or did it just not work ?

Hope it works.Looks like a very handy tool.
Cheers
b

 

Sorry I'm locking this as the original issues are no longer related problems so it just ends up being super confusing to people and out of context to what Unity can do with auto packing, automatic atlas generation in 2017 and so on...

Please DO post a new thread about your tool and responses though, thanks!