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Optimizing sprite meshes for Unity

2015-09-21 Andreas Löw

Polygon mesh sprites are a way to improve rendering performance and increase your frame rate.

TexturePacker 4 not only creates optimized sprite meshes but also packs them tightly into a sprite sheet.

You'll learn how you can enable polygon packing and make use of it in your Uniy project.

Reducing artifacts on rotated sprites

2015-09-16 Andreas Löw

Get rid of those ugly edge artifacts!

I prefer smooth edges instead over jagged outlines.

TexturePacker 4's upcoming feature trim margin gives you full control over sprite's transparency when using trim & crop. It also replaces inner padding.

Learn how to take advantage of this new feature to improve your game's quality.

Using PhysicsEditor with Cocos2D

2015-07-15 Andreas Löw

This tutorial explains how you can use PhysicsEditor with version 3 of Cocos2D, which has integrated Chipmunk2D as physics engine.

Create physics shapes for your sprites
Setup your Cocos2D application
Add collision shapes to your sprites

Exporter included for download

SpriteKit dynamic light tutorial

2015-05-19 Andreas Loew

What you are going to learn:

Create your normal maps using SpriteIlluminator
Create a side-scrolling scene with parallax scrolling
Create a normal mapped sprite
Add light effects to the game scene

cocos2d-x dynamic light tutorial

2015-05-12 Joachim Grill

What you are going to learn:

Create your normal maps + sprite sheets using SpriteIlluminator and TexturePacker.
Load animation frames from a sprite sheet
Load a normal map sprite sheet and add a light effect to your animation