XML export feature for animations

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From jcso...@gmail.com on March 11, 2011 19:41:15

What do you need to do? Export animation info in an xml format for an animation created in ASE and batch save all the frames of an animation as separate images. How would you like to do it? Add an export animation to the file menu.

P.S.
awesome program I really appreciate the hard work. I'd
equate this to the Musagi of sprite and animation tool, I'm surprised
it's not recommended in the indie community more. Keep up the good work =]

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/aseprite/issues/detail?id=17

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From davidcapello on March 11, 2011 15:39:22

Owner: davidcapello
Labels: -Priority-Medium Priority-High Milestone-0.9

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From chriswil...@gmail.com on November 25, 2013 02:23:25

Is there a specific XML format in mind, if not could this be JSON, which is faster/easier/lighter to parse and use more commonly for modern animation.

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From davidcapello on November 25, 2013 11:07:07

Not yet, if you have some ideas for different JSON formats, it would be great. I remember to see that there are a lot of different formats (mainly for texture atlases).

More info: http://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker http://renderhjs.net/shoebox/ TexturePacker uses Grantlee templates to export files, so that could be handy to support several formats (XML, JSON, YAML, etc.)

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From davidcapello on November 25, 2013 11:12:07

More: http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-json-format/

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From Carduus....@gmail.com on November 29, 2013 05:42:49

Export frame timing would be soooo nice !
We're using Starling format(Sparrow), but we will use a custom parser so any format would be great
at the end we want the tile sheet(png) its atlas (XML/JSON Whatever)and the animation timing(XML/JSON/whatever).

By the way thanks for this amazing soft!

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From davidcapello on December 05, 2013 11:09:29

Status: Started

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From davidcapello on December 08, 2013 15:27:13

I've committed something in 'dev' branch to start with: f531f6d You are able to export one file (or several files) to one texture file. For example:

./aseprite.exe --batch --sheet out.png --data out.json test.ase

This load test.ase file, and generates a couple of files. The sheet, out.png, contains all frames in a row (like a sprite sheet), and metadata, out.json, has all the animation info (look the attached file in this comment).

Also you can use something like this:

./aseprite.exe --batch --sheet atlas.png --data atlas.json images/.png images/.ase

That will create a texture atlas with all your images and animation frames. (Sorry but the layout of images is really simple at the moment, there are a waste of space in the texture.)

Please make comments about what you think, and I'll be uploading a beta for Windows today (it is really unstable).

Attachment: out.json

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From davidcapello on December 13, 2013 04:23:52

I've release a command line version beta for Windows http://www.aseprite.org/cli/ You can try it and write comments here.

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From davidcapello on February 24, 2014 03:15:44

Issue #179 has been merged into this issue.

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From davidcapello on April 09, 2014 18:06:56

Labels: -Milestone-0.9 Milestone-1.0