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Learn how to use SpriteSheets with SpriteKit:

• Creating sprite sheets with TexturePacker
• Loading sprite sheets
• Using header files to enable compile time checks
• Play animations with a single line of code

This blog post contains full source code available on GitHub.

How to create a sprite sheet

• Sprite sheet formats
• Simple sprite sheet workflow
• Previewing animations

TexturePacker 4.2.0 Release details

• Improved UI
• Updated hardware compression formats: PVRTCII, ETC2, DXT1/5
• Suport for indexed pngs (PNG-8)
• ETC1 compressed transparency
• Better display of warnigns & errors
• Removal of unused functions: DPI & HeuristicMask
• Data files are now all UTF-8
• Fixes

Basic tutorial for libGDX users:

• Creating a new project
• Creating sprite sheets
• Using sprites
• Creating physics collision shapes
• Editing physics parameters
• Using physics in your game

Description of the plist file format used for sprites sheets in cocos2d and cocos2d-x