Texture Packer + Unity Tutorial

Unfortunately that's not the case for me; here's what is imported from that package: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23284/tp.png

Ben

 

TP helper is not part of the dll.
See image bellow:




Just attach TPMesh Texture Ex to any object and TPHelper will be added automatically.

 

Ah I see. I'm afraid I'm not seeing the Docs, Resources or TPCore folders included in the dropbox package. Here's what's imported for me:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23284/tp2.png

Is it possible that some files are missing from that package?

Ben

 

Please disregard my last message - I was attempting to overwrite the old version of the lib and hadn't realised that the location had changed. The files were present but were being updated in a separate location. Deleting everything and re-importing worked as expected. My apologies!

I'm just testing the iOS export now...

Update: Yep, it all works as expected. Thank you very much for your help lacost!

Ben

 

I glad that you solve your problem. Good luck with your project

Cheers!

 

awesome!

 

Hi. Thank you for good tool.
I use Pro version and have problem with sliced-9 sprites.
I use NGUI for my game.
The problem is in sliced-9 sprites. When I rebuild my atlases I loose info about borders for sliced-9 sprites.
How I can use TexturePacker + NGUI with sliced-9 sprites? How to save info about borders for these sprites?
Thank you.

p.s. Земляк! Круто =))))

 

Hi there. I'm not really understood what are you mean. Just contact me via mail lacost.st@gmail.com and we will solve your problem

Cheers!

P.S. Мыло можно писать на русском =) или сразу в скайп lacost_20 =)

 

Jerome Maurey Update with download example is already submitted. And will be announced as soon as Asset Store team will check it.

If you need this download example now, just send me e-mail lacost.st@gmail.com and will send you new package.
Cheers!

 

Hi.
I got a problem.
TP plug-in worked well until yesterday, but today it doesn't show exact coordinates.
For example there was a tree in a plane, but now there is solid color in there.
The data file, atlas image and material are not changed.
It occurred after I add a TPMeshTexture twice.
- I'm not sure that it's the real cause because I touched many things today.
And here is an error I got when I click the "Update" button. ( No error when I call a "UpdateView()" of TPMeshTexture class. )

ArgumentException: An element with the same key already exists in the dictionary.
System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,System.String].Add (System.String key, System.String value) (at /Applications/buildAgent/work/c514da0c8183631c/mcs/class/corlib/System.Collections.Generic/Dictionary.cs:404)
TPAtlasesData.AddAtlasInfo (System.String atlas, System.String path) (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPCore/Helpers/TPAtlasesData.cs:20)
TPAssetPostprocessor.fillAtlasesDictionary () (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPCore/Editor/Data/TPAssetPostprocessor.cs:169)
TPAssetPostprocessor.UpdateAtlasesInfromation () (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPCore/Editor/Data/TPAssetPostprocessor.cs:50)
TPAssetPostprocessor.get_atlasesNames () (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPCore/Editor/Data/TPAssetPostprocessor.cs:75)
TPHelperEditor.Awake () (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPCore/Editor/Components/TPHelperEditor.cs:28)

Well... is it cache problem? If so, how can I clear it?
(I'm using pro version.)

 

Hello DMONGS. Thanks for purchasing.
I just did the same thing (add TPMeshTexture twice) there were few errors but they gone as soon as I removed excess component.

Just delete mesh with problem for your scene and add it again. It should work fine. Because original mesh wasn't affected by extension. If that will not solve your problem, the please send me packages contained your scene with described issue, so I can take closer look on it. Thanks.

P.S. Guys if you need urgent help. Do not post in this thread contact me directly via e-mail. I will respond much quicker. Basically this thread is for question, suggestion, ect. If you have some problems it can mean two things:
1) You did something worn. In this case I just will help you to do it in right way.
2) You found bug in extension. In this case I will fix it ASAP, and will post warning about it to this thread, in case somebody will have same issue.

Thanks a lot for understanding. Cheers!

 

• Runtime Atlases Download Example.
• Source Code is Open Now!! (Pro version only)
• Minor bug fixes

 

Just imported TP Pro.

Imported everything except Tutorial folder because I don't need it.

Moved the whole Extensions folder to a different location in my Assets directory tree.

Now when I open Window / Texture Package, I get an empty tool window that doesn't react to any input, and lots of Exception messages in Console:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/136375/img/screens/unity-tpbroken.png

So, what now?

[Unity Pro 4.2.2f1 with -force-opengl, Android Pro build target, Win7 64-bit]

 

Another problem is, I can't even close that broken/nonresponding TP window now...

 

The problem is solved. Thanks for report.

This issue appears if no atlases detected in project.
Fixed version will be available shortly in asset store, in the mean time, please do not open Texture Packer Unity Window if you do not have any atlases in the project.

 

hi lacost! i read the post refering to atlas creation on runtime.

is it possible to solve the following problem with texture packer pro:?

my game is a little 3d editor where you can duplicate/translate cubes and attach an image (texture) on one or multiple cubes. you can download another image and add it to mutliple other cubes. so in worst case every cubes has its own texture (256x256) so every cube needs a drawcall. all happens at runtime. you are able to save your cubes and your are able to reload and reedit them - so the atlas creation must happen on every edit step. is it possible to use texturepacker to save drawcalls and solve perfromance issues on an increasing amount of items?

kind regards

 

That is impossible to create atlas in runtime. Because standalone Texture Packer version is responsible for atlas creation.
However you can download ready made atlases in runtime an use it.
Cheers!

 

I didn't see an answer to this so apologies if you already covered it: can the extension create the new unity 2d Sprite objects?

 

Thanks for your interest. I am working on it.
This should be covered in future updates.

 

Hi, I've been trying out the free version and have run into a couple of issues.

The first is texture bleeding seen below, when mapping meshes to the 0,1 UV borders. I have reduced this problem a great deal by using the Extrude and Padding settings in the TexturePackerGUI under Layout. It now looks much better than the screenshot, however there are still seams when viewed up close and the black padding space becomes visible again as mip levels increase. It also means my textures don't pack in neatly due to everything gaining 2 pixels on either side (so four 256 textures no longer neatly fill a 1024 side). Are these settings the only options for dealing with this problem? Is there a way to clamp the UVs?




Second, is it possible to assign multiple textures (from the same Atlas) or materials (multiple different Atlases) to the same object? The road texture and grass texture in the images are both in the same Atlas, but it appears that I need to separate them into unique meshes to assign a different texture to them. This also means that the vertex normals at the seam are no longer aligned and need to be manually adjusted to maintain soothing. All of this creates a lot a of extra work in the mesh pipeline. Is there a way to assign multiple textures/materials, or any plans to implement such a feature?



Texture Packer seems like a very useful tool, but with these problems (in particular the second problem - I can live with the current solution to the first) are stopping me from buying the paid version.

 

Sampling atlased textures in a tiled/repeating way will always show seams unless BOTH the following conditions are met:

1. you have an extrusion padding on each side of eachs sprite that is approx. as many pixels wide/high as will safely mip down to the lower levels. Hard to quantify really.. just be aware that bilinear/trilinear texture filtering in current GPUs always accesses neighboring texels, which is great in a normal repeating texture but immediately leads to such artifacts with atlases. Depends on the use-case then how thick the border would have to be (ie. what's the lowest mip level where such artifacts would be bothersome).

2. you have a shader that specifically supports tiled/repeating atlased-sprites via texLod or ddx/ddy. If you understand how the shading pipeline and GPU texture filtering work, you'll realize that changing UVs won't be enough to avoid these artifacts. Could do without a shader if you were OK with "Point filtering" only, but nobody wants that unless you're going for that pixelated retro look. Any other filtering will sample neighboring texels as point #1 above. Only a special shader that "knowingly samples into an atlas" will ideally also adjust correct mip-level selection which avoids other nasty (but less obvious to spot at first) rendering artifacts, I don't see how changing UVs on a mesh could possibly do that.

If you search for "texture atlas seams" or "mip bleeding" (here or on the wider web) you'll learn that this is a timeless problem with no perfect solutions unless you're willing to accept the above two. I've researched for well over a week for a shader of mine "proven and correct" ways to possibly do seam-less atlased-sprite sampling without needing padded borders, I've concluded it's just simply not doable (for me) reliably and generically due to the nature of how GPUs do texture filtering.

All this is never an issue when using atlases for non-tiled/non-repeating texturing needs -- but you specifically mentioned roads and grass so I felt I had to chip in.

 

Can I store shadow maps in the texture atlas using this?

 

Hi,
I'm using TexturePacker for 3D Objects and i have some questions:
1) I noticed that if i move atlas, _data.txt, and material out the example resources folder, it doesn't work anymore. I must put all my atlas in that folder?
2) It works on iPhone and iPad? using folder path there aren't problems with path?

 

Hi, I tried using texture atlas in my game but draw calls increase instead of decreasing whats the problem here?

 

Hello.

1) Atlas and _data file should be inside Resources folder. Location of Resources folder and location of atlas inside Resources folder doesn't metter.

2) Sure, you can use it on any platform.

Draw calls is depended not only from material sharing. Material sharing only one of condition for dynamic batching to work. Please read more here : DrawCallBatching .
Any way I always try to help my customers, please e-mail your project or sample (with reproduced issue) as Unity package to lacost.st@gmail.com and I will see what I can do.

Cheers!

 

can this be used with a character rig for animation?

 

Yes, skinned mesh support is there.
Only make sure your character use 1 material per mesh.

 

Hello,

Nice plugins,


But I can't see my Texture Atlases in the Texture Packer custom window.

Here my TP settings: http://prntscr.com/2s6ezw

I see you set import settings in Unity But Should Have set the exact settings of all my sprite atlases?
http://prntscr.com/2s6fey

Thanks.

 

Hello.

Thanks, appreciated!

You should put your atlas and data file inside Resources folder

No, compression setting is up to you.
Cheers!

 

Hi,

I really dig your plug ins, do u currently have any tutorials or documentation for getting your texture packer + unity plug-in and your After Effects Importer plug-in to work together?

Thanks

 

Hi,

how can I create a sprite from a TP atlas with the right aspect (scaling)...?

I'm using the pro version and watched the videos... but I when I create a "TP Sprite Texture" object as shown in the video I get this error message:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
BaseTPConmponents.CopyMesh (UnityEngine.Mesh m) (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPSource/Core/3D/BaseTPConmponents.cs:214)


so only when I use a mesh object (a quad for example) and apply the "TPMesh Texture Ex" component then I get the texture without errors... but the aspect ratio is wrong of course and I would have to rescale the object...

so is there a way to match the size of the quad mesh object automatically to the texture size...?

thanks

 

Hello, sure. What you are using this is for applying texture to meshes.
But obviously you need just simile sprite. Here is what you should do:

Create Texture Packer Sprite:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s245...5accbb35f8a186a6aee63b3/deep/0/GameObject.png

Press the Set button
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s245...rePackerDev---iPhone,-iPod-Touch-and-iPad.png

TexturePacker Unity Inspector will be opened
1) Choose Atlas
2) Choose Texture
3) Hit Set Texture

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s245...rePackerDev---iPhone,-iPod-Touch-and-iPad.png

That's it, TexturePacker Sprite with right aspect will be created:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s245...rePackerDev---iPhone,-iPod-Touch-and-iPad.png

 

Hi,

thanks for the screenshots...
I did what you said... but I get an error message

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
BaseTPConmponents.CopyMesh (UnityEngine.Mesh m) (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPSource/Core/3D/BaseTPConmponents.cs:214)
BaseTPConmponents.initUVValues () (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPSource/Core/3D/BaseTPConmponents.cs:67)
BaseTPConmponents.setTile (Single x, Single y) (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPSource/Core/3D/BaseTPConmponents.cs:82)
BaseTPConmponents.showFrame (.TPAtlasTexture texture) (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPSource/Core/3D/BaseTPConmponents.cs:190)
TPMeshTexture.applayUV () (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPSource/Core/3D/TPMeshTexture.cs:43)
TPSprite.showFrame (Int32 index) (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPSource/Core/3D/TPSprite.cs:65)
TPSpriteTexture.OnEditorFrameChange () (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPSource/Core/3D/TPSpriteTexture.cs:38 )
TPSpriteAnimationEditor.Awake () (at Assets/Extensions/TexturePacker/TPCore/Editor/Components/TPSpriteAnimationEditor.cs:34)

and the "TP Sprite Texture" object does only show the green gizmo (but not in the size or aspect of the texture)... even though the info-text field of the component shoes the right info for "Atlas:" and "Texture:"...

any idea...?

 

Looks like you did something wrong, please contact me via e-mail and we will schedule teamviewer session.
stans.assets@gmail.com

 

Thanks for the excellent plugin.

Is there anyway we can use "Sorting Layers" Unity has.
Having problems with Zorder of the textures and can't figure out a workaround.
I can't select nor edit "TP Static Sprite" where the actual renderer is.

thanks.

 

Sorting layer that is good feature request thanks. For now you can simply use Z coord, this will work.

 

How can I change Texture(in the same Atlas) in run time with C# script.

 

Not sure what you mean by this. Can you explain wider what are you tying to do?

 

Something like...
I have picture1 and picture2 in atlas1.
I add "TPMesh Texture Ex" to plane1 and set "Texture" to picture1.
How to change plane1's texture to picture2 in runtime?

thank you.

 

Well that is simple:
1) If you need an example simply open RuntimeAtlasTextureSwitch with comes with plugin.

2)If you need to swish texture you can use this method:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. TPHelper helper = GetComponent<TPHelper>();
3. helper.OnTextureChange("texture_name");
4.  

and if you need to switch atlas also

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. TPHelper helper = GetComponent<TPHelper>();
3. helper.SwitchAtlas("atlas_path");
4.  

 

Thank you very much.

 

Hi there!

First off thanks. I'm evaluating the free version of the importer, together with TexturePacker v3.3.3. I keep getting "No Atlas Found".

I have to choose between two types of Data Format in TP:

1. Unity - JSON data (.txt)
2. Unity - Texture2D Sprite Sheet

I choose #1, JSON data. Then I publish to my Unity Assets/_Textures folder. When I then select a Mesh object and attach the "TPMesh Texture Ex" script the "TPHelper" says "No Atlas Found". I can see the atlas PNG and JSON TXT files in the Assets/_Textures folder.

Any ideas?

 

Hi,

I am working on a 2d game where I need to access some images from a sprite sheet atlas. I saw your plugin on Unity Assets Store. It looks impressing but when I tried it found lack of documentation. Yes, you have provided documentation but that's not enough I guess. Documentation provided is mainly of editor only and for scripting part only OnGUI stuff have been covered.

For getting the image from atlas you have shown the following example. But when I tried it and created a texture and displayed it on screen, I found that draw calls were not reducing.

TPAtlas atlas = TPackManager.getAtlas(MyAtlasName);
TPAtlasTexture texture= atlas.getTexture("myTextureName");

What I want is to get TPAtlasTexture or Texture2D or Sprite type components which I can add to newly created GameObject component and which I can draw without OnGUI method.

I would be really grateful if you can help me out this thing.

Thanks

 

I also tried the following code, it draws two textures on screen, using OnGUI method. But draw calls are also 2 and no saving in draw calls.

Code (csharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class Script1 : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     TPAtlas atlas;
7.     TPAtlasTexture texture;
8.     TPAtlasTexture texture2;
9.    
10.     void OnGUI()
11.     {
12.         texture.draw(0, 0, 80, 80);
13.         texture2.draw(100, 0, 80, 80);
14.     }
15.                          
16.     void Start ()
17.     {
18.         atlas = TPackManager.getAtlas("my_atlas");
19.         texture = atlas.getPngTexture("mytex1");
20.         texture2 = atlas.getPngTexture("mytex2");
21.     }
22. }
23.  

 

Hello,

How can we handle multiple normal maps? Can we put them also together on an atlas? What would be the correct workflow?

Thanks!

 

You have to put those two files (PNG and TXT) into Resources folder so his scripts can load those.

Also, do you have _data at the end of txt?

Read carefully the tutorial.

 

Hello, one question!

How can I change the sprite opacity and color (via scripting)

 

-snip- nevermind

 

Kobix, yep, you absolutely right.

Sorry, but this feature is not supported.

 

Hello all!

I'm going crazy with a weird thing that is happening with TP, I'll try to explain hehe.
I have a projecte with an amount af prefabs created and for the texture atlasses i was using Atlas3D (based on NGUI), now I'm changing to Texture Packer, I like it so much but it seems to be incompatibilities.

I have removed all the scripts from the prefabs and attached TPMesh Texture Ex. The point is that firstly it is ok, but every time I select the prefab it goes crazy and break the texture, I seems that is...reducing the UVMap :/ like I post here in the images.

Original prefab


One Click


Two clicks


When this happens I go to Blender and resave the file and corrects the error. But If i click again i breacks again -_-
I've been near to 10 hours trying to solve it, but I've not been able to do it.

Any idea??

Thanks!