Unity3D 2D动画插件EasyMotion2D (之二)Sprite Asset Viewer

What is Sprite Viewer

Sprite Asset Viewer is a sprite manage tool in EasyMotion2D.

How to use

• Select the menu item EasyMotion2D > Sprite Asset Viewer > Open Window to open the Sprite Asset Viewer.
• Click “New Sprite Asset” button in Sprite Asset Viewer to create a New SpriteAsset.

What is sprite asset

• Sprite Asset is a asset file it include sprite groups and sprites.
• A Sprite Asset file in Project Window will display as a window in Sprite Asset Viewer.
• You can click the “X” button in right-top of a asset file window to remove it from project, or remove it from Project Windows directly.
• After you remove A asset file, all groups and sprites in this file will be remove, if anywhere has reference these, it will be lost.
• Drag textures from Project Window and drop to a window in Sprite Asset Viewer, you can create sprites to this Sprite Asset file.
• If a asset file not have any group, then will automatically create a sprite group, and insert sprites to this group.

What is sprite group

• Sprite group use to group sprites in Sprite Asset file. It's not use in runtime, just use to group sprite for user.
• Sprite group will display as a sub window in Sprite Asset file window.
• You can click sprite group window's title name to rename the sprite group.
• You can click the “X” button in right-top of a group window to remove it from asset file.
• After you remove A group, all sprites in this group will be remove, if anywhere has reference these, it will be lost.

What is sprite

• Sprite is the renderering primitive of EasyMotion2D. One Sprite have 4 vectiecs 2 triangles.
• You can drag sprite from one group and drop to other group easily in Sprite Asset Viewer.
• You can click textfield under a sprite to rename the sprite.
• You can use left-click to select sprite in Sprite Asset Viewer. Hold a Ctrl(Windows)/Command(Mac) can be multi-select. When you select sprites, assets in project window will selected.
• After you selected sprites, you can use right-click(Windows/Mac)/ctrl+left-click(Mac) to popup sprite command menu.

Sprite Background color in Sprite Asset Viewer

• Transparent means sprites packed to atlas.
• Red means sprites not in PowOf2 textures, in this case, sprite will can not renderering pixel perfect.
• Blue means sprite in PowOf2 textures but not pack to atlas.