Whats up with Slice Tool?

[GabZ !]

Hello.


I think I'm doing something wrong. Isn't the Slice Tool supposed to create slices on a single image, so you can export all slices in separated files easily? Like, multiple buttons, so I don't need to export each one at a time.

The thing is, I set the slices, but File > Export does not has any option so select slices, nor exporting result in multiple images as I want.

How to properly use it? Thanks!

[Vegaetalus]

Slices are used for spritesheets. Aseprite can export their data in a JSON file to be used e.g. in a game engine. It is more efficient for games to have all sprites in one image and know the position and dimensions of each sprite within the sheet rather than loading many seperate image files.

[Vegaetalus]

However, you can use the CLI to save slices as seperate images with --split-slices

https://www.aseprite.org/docs/cli/

I don't think this functionality is in the GUI yet.

[GabZ !]

Aww, that's too bad. My game uses separated png files, not sprite sheets. Thanks for letting me know tough, guess I'll use PS to do the slices, a bit easier than CLI I think.

Thanks again!

[dacap]

At the moment the CLI is the way to go ( e.g. aseprite -b sprites.ase --save-as slice-{slice}.png ), but in a near future I want to improve the Export interface to support more options (slices is one of them).

[GabZ !]

Thank you for the reply! An improved Export will be really helpful.