5 best alternatives to TexturePacker as of 2018 - Slant

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OpenGameArt

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2D and 3D art

OpenGameArt has both 2D and 3D art assets. See More

Top Con

Assets may have restrictive licenses

OpenGameArt hosts art under any of several licenses, some of which may not be suitable for commercial projects or for release on certain distribution platforms. Careful review of which licenses are compatible with your project is essential. The site's search facility allows filtering by license. See More

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Committed to free/open licensing

All assets made available through OpenGameArt must be licensed under one (or more) of the following: CC0, OGA-BY, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, GPL or LGPL. See More

Top Con

Mediocre organization and search functionality

The curator of OpenGameArt acknowledges that the tools for finding the assets you need are sub-par. Correcting this is a near-future priority for improvement, and as of September 2014 is the next milestone goal of the site's Patreon campaign. See More

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Supports asset requests

OpenGameArt has community forum sections dedicated to Resource Requests and Open Commissions. See More

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GAF:Flash to Unity

Top Pro

Supports different frameworks

Full playback API supported in Unity3d, Cocos2d-x, Cocos2d, Starling. See More

Top Con

Sound support available only in Premium version

GAF Converter supports sound but only in the Premium version. See More

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Alows using Flash animations in Unity

You can convert Flash animations directly in Unity with the help of plug-in. The converted .gaf file consists of a texturte atlas and a binary config. See More

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Doesn't support sounds

GAF does not support importing audio along with Flash animations. See More

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No need to use large Sprite Sheets

With GAF converter you get a highly optimized texture atlas and a config file. You don't need to take trouble over cumbersome sprite sheets. You can easily modify an already working in Unity animation and play around with the animations parts whenever you need. See More

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Can convert 99% of what can be done in Flash

GAF supports such Flash features as: Masks support; Filters support; No limitations on timeline; Conversion of shape tweens; Frame labels. See More

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2D Toolkit

Top Pro

Good documentation

The documentation for the toolkit is well written and there are video tutorials as well as an active community. See More

Top Con

Doesn't integrate with Unity's Sprite system

2D Toolkit provides a completely proprietary sprite implementation. Though it can be used alongside Unity's 2D systems, the two are completely separate and require different code to utilize. See More

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Includes source code

No need to pay more to get access to the source code. See More

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Pixel-perfect camera

Pixel games in the style of 8 or 16 bit systems need to have each pixel uniform on the screen which 2D Toolkit supports with a camera component. See More

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Add colliders in the atlas editor

Choose from either a box, sphere, or mesh collider that will output as either a 3D or 2D collider in Unity. See More

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Create different resolutions of atlas

2D Toolkit allows for different sizes of atlas from 1x, 2x, or 4x which can be changed depending on platform resolution. See More

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Built to work inside Unity

2D Toolkit is an editor extension so users don’t have to leave the Unity engine for tile mapping. See More

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Create Atlases within the tool

Create sprite sheets for tiles to save draw calls and to keep tilesets organized. See More

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Supports the Tiled TMX Format

Create tilemaps in Tiled and implement with 2D Toolkit. See More

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Filter Forge

Top Pro

Several filters

Filter Forge includes a lot of filters and each of them has several presets. Filters are grouped into different categories (Organic, Patterns, Creative, Distortions, Photo, etc...) so it's easy to locate them. See More

Top Con

Slow development cycle

New versions come fast enough, but for example, the beta version of 7 doesn't have a lot that 4 didn't have. See More

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Large online library of filters

The website has thousands of filters available for download. This is the only thing that makes the basic edition feasible. See More

Top Con

No free tier

Filter Forge is not free. The basic edition (cheapest one) is $149. It does go on sale regularly though for around $30. See More

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Standalone application or PhotoShop plugin

Filter Forge can be used as both a standalone application and as a plugin for PhotoShop. See More

Top Con

Hefty price tag

Its $399 for the professional version, whereas a big competitor used by large studios is only $149. See More

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Not only a Photoshop plugin, has a lot of other hosts

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Unity Sprite Packer

Top Con

Doesn't work anymore

As of Unity 2017 it's completely broken. See More

Top Pro

Create Custom Output Via Code

Set custom packing specified by code useful for those who have to follow a guideline on packed sprites. See More

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Comes built into Unity

The Pro license brings full 2D support within Unity without having to use an external program or plugin for creating atlases. See More

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