[Marketplace Asset Submission Upload Fails]

@Mike at BrashMonkey

I know you guys are busy with Spriter 2 so no problem at all. This was just a side request

 

Here is a video of the upload issue

https://youtu.be/5hyX_WLEbqM

 

It's mainly because my Internet is slow. I have similar issue on other marketplaces. But in other marketplaces this is only happening after file uploads that are larger than 150MB. in The video I tried upload a file that was 3MB large.

That said I tried after the record 6-7 times more and the upload worked. But I doubt it will work for larger Assets. 

[Marketplace Asset Submission Upload Fails]

Hi

I'm trying to upload game assets that were animated in spriter to "Paid Spriter Animatons" section in the marketplace. However the upload constantly keeps failing with a dialog that says -200

My internet is not the fastest but I have an upload speed of 1mb. Is there a workaround for this? Like importing the files from dropbox?

 

 The asset I'm talking about is 34mb large. I have an asset that is 300mb large. I can drastically reduce the size of the packages by removing the PNG image sequence exports of the animation and only provide what's necessary for the spriter file itself. I only feel it would be good practice to include animations exports at least. 

Update: I removed all the animation exports and reduced size from 34mb to 3mb. But after it reaches a random percent it still fails. Looks like uploading assets is not possible at the moment. 

 

Thanks

 

[SpriterDotNet - An implementation for all C# frameworks]

Hello loodakrawa,

first thank you very much for this amazing plugin. It's making my life a lot easier !

I've got a small bug? I am even not sure. So.. i want to upload character assets with spriter animations on the unity assets store. For this I'm including a small demo scene with the character and your plugin. Everything works well. 

 

Now for me to upload to the unity asset store I need to package the entire assets folder into an .unitypackage

Unfortunately when I create a new unity project and unzip the newly created unitypackage the sprites of the character are not linked anymore. Therefore on the scene itself nothing is shown.. I've to delete the created prefab and the .assets file. And reimport the .scml file so the 2 files are created again. It would be bad to expect my customers to do that themselves

Is there a way to fix this?

If it helps I can send you the unitypackage. 

 

Thank you for you time

 

[tiny script to sort spriter batch animations exports]

First I'm not much of a programmer. So any feedback is welcome. Special corner cases not tested. 

 

Download AnimationSorter

 

Prerequisites

• Animations must be batch export or all animations must have a prefix
• Animation names must be in following format

prefix + animation + number + file extension 

 

So for example you have 3 animations: Attack, Idle, Run. 

When you export in spriter you are asked for a base file name. When you type "character" as base file name spriter spits out 3 animations like this

• character_attack_000.png
• character_attack_001.png
• character_attack_002.png
• character_idle_000.png
• character_idle_001.png
• character_idle_002.png
• character_run_000.png
• character_run_001.png
• character_run_002.png

(Number of files is not important)

How it works

1. Export animations in spriter (e.g batch export)
2. when exporting enter a prefix e.g character
3. put the executable script file into the same folder as your animation exports
4. run exe
5. enter the prefix which every animation files have in common e.g character from step 2
6. enjoy that you don't need to sort animations anymore

 

What the script does:

The script searches for all png images in the same folder the script is. Then it extracts the given prefix from each image. character_attack_000.png becomes attack_000.png

Then it extracts the extension and number as well so only animation name is left wich is attack. Next it creates a folder with that animation name and afterwards puts each matching image file in that folder. And this for each image. 

 

Conclusion

I found the script to be a huge time saver. Especially with hundreds of image files (in the gif example 500+ images were sorted under 1s). So I hope it helps you guys out as well.

Here the full script:

import glob
import os
import shutil
import time


class AnimationSorter:
    """A simple sorter class"""

    def __init__(self):
        self.prefix = ''
        self.folders_count = 0
        self.files_count = 0

    def set_prefix(self):
        self.prefix = raw_input('Type in the prefix of the animations.\nPrefix: ')
        print self.prefix

    def get_animations(self):
        path = os.getcwd() + '\\'
        anims = glob.glob(path + '*.png')
        return anims

    def sortanim(self):

        anims = self.get_animations()

        if not anims:
            print('No files found.')
            return False

        self.files_count = len(anims)

        for i, x in enumerate(anims):

            basedir, filename = os.path.split(x)

            result = x.replace(str(self.prefix), "", 1)
            n = result.split("_", 1)
            result = n[0]
            result = result.translate(None, '_')

            dir_name, ext = os.path.splitext(result)

            if not os.path.exists(dir_name):
                os.makedirs(dir_name)
                print 'new directory: ' + dir_name
                self.folders_count += 1

            try:
                shutil.move(x, dir_name + '\\' + filename)
            except IOError as (errno, strerror):
                print "I/O error({0}): {1}".format(errno, strerror)
            except ValueError:
                print "Could not convert data to an integer."
            except:
                print "Unexpected error:"
                raise

            self.files_count += 1
            # print 'moving file success'

        return True


if __name__ == "__main__":

    print '___________ SORT ANIMATION EXPORTS ___________\n\n'
    sorter = AnimationSorter()

    sorter.set_prefix()

    start = time.time()
    # call your code here

    if sorter.sortanim():
        end = time.time()
        print 'Done.' \
              '\nTotal files: ' + str(sorter.files_count - 1) + \
              '\nTotal Folders: ' + str(sorter.folders_count) + \
              '\nTime needed: ' + str(end - start) + 's'

    k = raw_input('\n\nPress any key to close.\n')

 

 

 

Download AnimationSorter

 

[Spriter R11 Bug Thread]

Bone transform can't be changed

 

the bone im trying to move is the magazine for a sci-fi like soldier.. 

 

I had a different rig first. The weapon was 1 sprite. Later I decided to have the magazine separated in order to animate the reloading of the weapon. So animation keyframes where existing already and now a new bone (the magazine) came as a new bone to each keyframe. When I then switched to other animation and back the above bug occured. 

 

I can Drag the bone but after drop it returns immediately to its original position.

[Spriter R11 Bug Thread]

Crash When Changing Foldername While Char Map Window is Opened.

I wanted make a char map and simply swap the heads. So I opened char map menu, opened both directories where the sprites are placed then noticed one folder wasn't called the way it should be. So from explorer I navigated to that directory changed folder name and got back to spriter. In the char map window the directory name was updated correctly. But the moment I clicked the head sprite on the char map window Spriter crashed.

 

 

[Spriter R11 Bug Thread]

I had the crash above in other place again and I think I can break it down to what's causing it

I had an effect sprites I wanted to apply. When the effect finished playing it should  scale down until 0. So I set x scale to 0 and ....... crash. Seems like it's causing spriter to crash. Because scaling down to 0 was exactly what i did in the above post too

 

[Spriter R11 Bug Thread]

crash

1. I selected 2 images

2. I scaled their x down to 0 on the object properties panel

3. Wrongly clicked another sprite and moved it

4. pressed ctrl+z to undo this action

5. crash

 

reproduceable: always

 

 

[Spriter R11 Bug Thread]

when you press repeatedly ctrl+z in skin mode spriter crashes 

No worries, I know it's "experimental" just reported so the devs know about it ;D

 

[Spriter R11 Bug Thread]

I've a bone hierarchy like this

 

 

 

When i move an image which is under the hips into the "b_torso" bone then this bone disappears from the hierarchy panel like so

 

the bone is not somewhere down. Only when I move the timeline cursor the "b_torso" bone appears in the hierarchy panel again

[Spriter R11 Bug Thread]

Crash

Crash after I wrongly selected the parent bone and dragged it down side it's children in the hierarchy panel. Note that I didn't release mouse button, i kept it dragging and spriter crashed.

All the bones had images attached. 

[Spriter R11 Bug Thread]

There is a bug with a keyframe that simply can't be deleted. I encountered this problem so many times that it is frustrating

if it helps I can send my spriter project file and tell where exactly the problem is. 

 

The bug is that I've a sprite attached to a bone. This image when I delete it appears in the next keyframe. Although there is no keyframe set for this particular sprite. So what I do next is I go through all my keyframes ( so time consuming..) and delete this one sprite and hope it is deleted but ! Surprise after I could delete it in the first keyframe it can not be deleted anymore. 

I can give my spriter project but please fix this annoying bug ;D

 

 

[Female Dark Thief Character Sprites]

 

Done with Spriter

 

More details here:

itch io

graphicsriver

Tokegameart

scirra store

 

[Ball Walker]

well done .. the elephant animation is done with spriter?

[2D Indie Game Art & Animation (pixel, vector, painted)]

great artwork desix ! keep it up

[Spriter R11 Bug Thread]

Hi

I have seen this Z-Order issue many times posted. The problem was that once you changed the z-order in 1 frame you needed to change it for every keyframe in that animation as it's not applied to all frames automatically (which is ok). Mike from spriter team pointed out that you can right click and then select "copy selected item property to all frames > absolute z-order". This indeed does the trick.

 

And here is my problem related to this. I need to change z-order in all animations. I've to do this for 5-6 sprites in 30 animations. Then go through each animation and everytime select the copy property thing.

One might ask why I just don't do it for 1 animation and then just copy it to all other. Well, it doesn't work. I have done the z-order the way it should be in one animation and copied everything to place it on the other animation. Unfortunately the Z-order doesn't copy. I mean everything else is copied.

 

 

 

 

[Tip on changing Spriters Project Path]

When there is something that Spriter users know than it is that once the project path is set it cannot be changed anymore or the project images get lost. 

Well.. Here is a small guide how it can be actually changed.

 

What do you need?

• Notepad++

Actually it is not a need but it's just easier to work with.

Now let's assume your Spriter File (SCML) is inside the folder where all your sprites are located.

In the above example my SCML file is called "Juggernaut". Now let's put it one folder higher in the file hierarchy.

What I did is to cut out the "Juggernaut " SCML from the "Body Parts" Folder and placed it to the parent folder.

If you open the scml file now.  After getting a pop-up dialog that notifies you about missing sprites the following thing will happen:

 

That happens because Spriter is still searching for the images in the old folder but since the file has moved the path has to be changed as well. Here is the trick

1. Right Click on the SCML file
2. Choose "open with" and then your favorite editor. In my case Notepad++
3. Then you will see a syntax similar to xml. 
4. Simply add a name attribute to the folder tag
5. Give it the path to the folder your sprites are located e.g name="Body Parts"
6. Search and replace all FILE NAME ATTRIBUTES with the path to the sprites e.g name="Body Parts/Head.png" (in the image above I had to continue it with file id = 7)
7. Save and open Spriter the normal way
8. Enjoy

 

No more missing Sprites ;D

 

 

[Skeleton Army Game Assets]

Hi,

2 years ago I discovered Spriter. Since then I did tons of animations and one of my favorites are the animations of my skeleton game assets.

 

When you use Spriter the right way you can create animations like this

Not all skeleton characters shown here but there are plenty more of them..

 

 

The whole package is available here: Graphicsriver

here GameDev Market

and here Itch.io

or even here Scirra Store

 

I have even updated the package to version 1.1 and added a run animation + white skin for each skeleton like this

 

I am still planning to add more content like a musketeer, samurai skeleton etc and also more animations but lets see how this turns out. Although people who buy are really happy sales are actually not much promising. I don't know why  

 

Here a bonus:

This was done per request. The task was to make a drunken skeleton animation.

 

And when you weren't bored all the way and really reached bottom of my post you can actually DOWNLOAD A FREE SKELETON CHARACER WITH SPRITER FILE FOR FREE!

Download Free Skeleton Character

Enjoy