[Guide] Making spritesheets with Blender

[darkfrei]

Also, for spritify you can use this tool: Just insert yours sprites and start the .bat-file what you need or make the new one.

Factorio_IMagick.7z

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Make this code, then it's not crop sprite at 128 pixels anymore. And it makes one sprite sheet with 8 columns.

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montage "Sprites/file*.png" -geometry +0+0 -tile 8x -background rgba(0,0,0,0) -quality 100% Sprite_x_8x.png

With 8 raws:

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montage "Sprites/file*.png" -geometry +0+0 -tile x8 -background rgba(0,0,0,0) -quality 100% Sprite_x_x8.png

[darkfrei]

If your sprites have too big alpha border, it can be cropped with this script:

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magick "Input/*.png" -background none ^
   ( -clone 0--1 -layers merge ^
   -set option:cropper "%%[@]" +delete ) ^
   -crop %%[cropper] +repage ^
   MIFF:- | magick montage MIFF:- -background none ^
   -tile 2x2 -geometry +0+0 Output\best_spritesheet_2x2.png

Examples, code from this forum, a lot of thanks to GeeMack.

Pros: You are cut all alpha from sprites, so your spritesheet will have much tiny dimensions. All sprites have same dimensions, no pixel with graphics will be deleted.
How to use: place your sprites to Input folder and start .bat-file.

Factorio_IMagick_best_spritesheet.7z

Example

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Code for rotating clockwise 90 degree.

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magick "Input/*.png" -background none ^
   -rotate 90 ^
   Input/rotated_90_%%04d.png

Mirroring

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magick "Input/*.png" -background none ^
   -flop ^
   Input/flop_%%04d.pnge

[JesseDGamer]

For people having trouble when trying to generate the sprite sheet, specifically when blender can't find the "montage.exe" file, here's a fix I did.
I replaced line 121 in the spritify.py file with the full path + file name of the montage.exe that ImageMagick installed :

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"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.0.8-Q16\montage.exe",

where it used to be

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"montage",

Idk for sure, but I think it has something to do with environment variables or something.

My problem now is that it's removing transparency from all the output images no matter what color I choose for the background... I've done a little research and found it might be a bug with montage.exe. Idk.

[darkfrei]

My problem now is that it's removing transparency from all the output images no matter what color I choose for the background... I've done a little research and found it might be a bug with montage.exe. Idk.

Don't forget this part:

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-background none

[Oceanel]

If your sprites have too big alpha border, it can be cropped with this script:

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magick "Input/*.png" -background none ^
   ( -clone 0--1 -layers merge ^
   -set option:cropper "%%[@]" +delete ) ^
   -crop %%[cropper] +repage ^
   MIFF:- | magick montage MIFF:- -background none ^
   -tile 2x2 -geometry +0+0 Output\best_spritesheet_2x2.png

How to use: place your sprites to Input folder and start .bat-file.
Factorio_IMagick_best_spritesheet.7z
...

Thanks, very helpful!

Add more:
If you want like this

fi-basic-farmland_07_4x.jpg (209.37 KiB) Viewed 201 times

Use such code:

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magick "Input/*.png" -background none ^
   ( -clone 0--1 -layers merge ^
   -set option:cropper "481x337+328+315" +delete ) ^
   -crop %%[cropper] +repage ^
   MIFF:- | magick montage MIFF:- -background none ^
   -tile 2x2 -geometry +0+0 Output\best_spritesheet_2x2.png
pause

And, for making icon 128x128 use this:

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magick "Input/*.png" -background none ^
   ( -clone 0--1 -layers merge ^
   -set option:cropper "%%[@]" +delete ) ^
   -crop %%[cropper] +repage ^
   MIFF:- | magick convert MIFF:- -background none ^
   -adaptive-resize 128x128 -gravity center -extent 128x128 best_icon_128b.png
pause

transparent background supported.

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