Duplicate data with --sheet CLI

[tommy-mitchell]

I'm attempting to use the CLI to split a sprite by it's slices, then combine that into a horizontal sheet pack. Here's the batch commands I'm using:

%ASEPRITE% -b "%~1" --save-as "%~2/%aspTempFolder%/sprite-{slice}.png"

%ASEPRITE% -b "%~2/%aspTempFolder%/sprite-*.png" --sheet "%~2/sheet.png" --data "%~2/%aspTempFolder%/data.json"

where the first parameter is the source file and the second is the output destination.

The slicing works well, and each appears in a separate .png file in my temp folder. However, the sprite sheet has duplicate entries:

Sprite:

Expected result:

Actual result:

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Looking at the JSON data shows that each slice (i.e. each .png file in the temp folder) is processed as many times as there are slices:

"sprite-slice0 0.png": { },
"sprite-slice0 1.png": { },
"sprite-slice0 2.png": { },
"sprite-slice0 3.png": { },
"sprite-slice0 4.png": { },
"sprite-slice0 5.png": { },

I'm not sure if the problem lies with Aseprite's CLI or with my own (cobbled-together) batch commands.

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Edit: I can get this to work by slicing the .ase file with the first command, and then opening all of the generated .png files as a single animation in Aseprite. From there, I can use the "Export Sprite Sheet" dialog to get what I want. However, I'd like to be able to do this without that extra hassle.

Aseprite and System version

• Aseprite version: v1.2.11-x64, Steam
• System: Windows

[mrspeaker]

I'm having trouble recreating this issue, as on my machine (mac) it doesn't let me specify multiple files with sprite-*.png. It tells me File not found: "sprite-*.png". No documents to export. Is that batch format (with the %1, %2...) special? I have to list the files individually: aseprite -b sprite-01.png sprite-02-png --sheet sheet.png.

Doing this I get a correct output: though vertically, not horizontally stacked!

[dacap]

I think the problem here is that ".../sprite-*.png" is listing all frames of the slice, so "sprite-slice0 0.png", "sprite-slice0 1.png", "sprite-slice0 2.png", "sprite-slice0 3.png", etc. are specified in the command line. Each file loads the whole sequence of frames creating its own animation. Similar to the problem from: #1936 (comment)