Texture atlas
In
texture coordinates
to pick it out of the atlas.
Benefits
In an application where many small
mipmapping and texture compression
.
In web development, images are packed into a sprite sheet to reduce the number of image resources that need to be fetched in order to display a page.[2]
Gallery
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A texture atlas for a video game -
A texture atlas of glyphs -
Sprite sheet for the video gameBlades of Exile -
References
- ^ a b "SDK White Paper Improve Batching Using Texture Atlases" (PDF). Nvidia. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
- ^ "Implementing image sprites in CSS". Mozilla Development Network.
External links
Explanations and algorithms
- Texture Atlas Whitepaper - A whitepaper by NVIDIAwhich explains the technique.
- Practical Texture Atlases - A guide on using a texture atlas (and the pros and cons).
- A thousand ways to pack the bin - Review and benchmark of the different packing algorithms
- Sprite Sheets - Essential Facts Every Game Developer Should Know - Funny video explaining the benefits of using sprite sheets
- What is Texture Atlas? - Blog post that explain atlas textures and their usage areas
Tools
- TexturePacker - sprite sheet packer with graphical user interface and tons of options. Works with almost all game engines.
- LibGDX texture packer - Open source texture packer utility from libGDX
- Texture Atlas Maker - Open source texture atlas utility for 2D OpenGL games.
- SpriteMapper - Open source texture atlas (sprite map) utility including an Apache Ant task.
- CC0 Atlas Textures - Copyright-free atlas texture library