The ‘Sprite Editor’ as well as the ‘Sprite Texture Type’ are new to Unity 4.3. If you click the ‘Sprite Editor’ button, we can go satisfy that itch. There are now fewer switches to play with, however, there is a very interesting new button that has piqued our interest. The dialog changes a bit once we switch to ‘Multiple’ mode for a sprite. So let’s change that option to ‘multiple’, shall we? The default for ‘Sprite Mode’ is Single, which is not good for a sprite sheet. There are a lot of interesting knobs and switches on this panel, but for now we are only interested in the ‘Texture Type’ and ‘Sprite Mode’ options. Notice that the ‘Texture Type’ has been preset to Sprite. First, select your asset and look in the ‘Inspector’ toolpane. Unity has included a few new tools to make this happen a lot easier than it was previously. The next step is to divide this sheet into individual sprites.

Go ahead and rename the asset to just “professor_walk” it will be easier to work with in a bit.

In the ‘Import Asset’ dialog box, navigate to the folder where you saved the image from above, select the image and click the ‘Import’ button to import it into your new project.

In Unity, Right-Click the Assets folder in the Project toolpane and select ‘Import New Asset…’.

Right-Click the image and select ‘Save image as…’ or ‘Save picture as…’, then save the image in a folder.

Since we aren’t creating a full game here I won’t go through the process of setting up all my asset folders, instead let’s just download the professor from above and add him to the asset folder. This will make Unity use a default working mode for 2D instead of 3D, but it’s easy enough to switch back and forth, don’t worry if you missed it the first time. Lets name the project 2DAnimation and make sure you select 2D from the ‘Setup defaults for:’ drop down. Open Unity 4.3 and select File->New Project. This particular spritesheet was done as part of the “Liberated Pixel Cup” on, the artist is Skyler Robert Colladay, with the entry, FeralFantom's Entry. Creating a Single Frame Animation using Unity 4.3 2d Workflowsįirst we need some artwork, I am generally a huge fan of so we’ll use some artwork from there today.NOTE: Be sure to read the follow-up article : UPDATE: Added missing step as noted in comments. We’ll cover the basics and a few pitfalls and shortcomings of this new technology. This time it was how to do animated sprites, but not just any animated sprites, sprites with multiple animations. As I explore the 2D features of Unity, I discover more and more cool things.

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