Texture Atlas vs. Sprite Sheet

Hello,

I am just starting out with Unity and I finished coding the basic gameplay for a 2D Platformer. For testing I just used a random sprite as player but now that I come to designing the real character I am wondering what to use.

Should I create a Sprite Sheet with drawn animations or should I use a texture atlas and animate the character in Unity?

I hope someone has experience with this kind of problem.

 

The sprite sheet IS a texture atlas.

 

What I mean is a texture atlas that contains each part of the character like left foot, right foot, left eye, right eye etc.

 

There's no right or wrong answer; it depends on which way you feel like doing it.

--Eric

 

It depends also how much time you want to spend or what effect you want... hand-animating it outside unity may give you more flexibility in terms of the detail of each frame and how they differ, while if you break the object up into pieces (hands, arms, etc) then you can animate each one individually using joints/bones etc and perhaps get a lot more frames of animation (and smooth tweening) but perhaps sacrificing some per-pixel level control over the appearance.

 

Sort of, but a texture atlas is not sprite sheet.

 

They're both textures

 

They are also both abstract collections of two states of electrons.