Merges multiple .PNG files to aid in the creation of spritesheets.
This script was used heavily in the creation of the art assets for Search For The Red Herring, and I found it to be a huge timesaver. As such, I’ve cleaned it up a bit and released it under the GPL for everyone to use.
Description
The script will take in any number of .PNG files as commandline arguments and will then generate an out.png file, while retaining all alpha data!
New in version 0.3 is the ability to merge images vertically as well as horizontally. Simply pass in the --vert commandline parameter. Also, there is a full example batch file included that will show you some ways to use this script to save even more time.
An example of how it works
Suppose you have 3 individual frames, and you want to combine them into one spritesheet. Here are the frames:
one.pngtwo.png
three.png
Then by using merge.py in the following way, you’ll end up with this result:
merge.py one.png two.png three.png out.png
Requirements
Download
Version 0.3 (Oct 22, 2008) – merge-v0.3.zip
Version 0.2 (Oct 23, 2006) – merge-v0.2.zip
[...] Sprite Merge (merge.py) [...]
dude…really need you help… i can not seem to get my head round this…got python loaded …think i got PIL loaded just having a bit of truble merge …. kinda short on instructions and im kinda rubbish with anything thats not gota gui … could really do with this as i have 300+ sprites to sort
many thanks
swamppibboy@yahoo.co.uk
Hi there brian,
Thanks for the question. There is an included batch file which demos all of the Sprite Merge functionality. Basically just ensure that all your sprites are of the same vertical height, then pass them all in as command-line parameters. ie.
“merge.py sprite1.png sprite2.png sprite3.png”
Hope this helps!