Animation Blocks

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Animation Blocks is a tool that was built to improve the iterability of 2d sprite sheet animations in Unity. Instead of selecting frames from a sprite sheet and generating your animation clips, Animation Blocks saves all your selections in a block sheet and you can adjust these selections and generate animation clips from them at any time.

Why Animation Blocks?

• Non-Destructive - When you slice your sprite sheet up into animations in Animation Blocks, it saves your selections. This means you can change your sprite sheet in any way such as adding/removing frames, changing resolution, or swapping sections of animation. All of these changes will be quick to update and won't break your animation controllers or animation clips.
• Transferable - The selections stored in block sheets aren't tied to a specific sprite sheet. This means you can select that frames 0-9 are "Idle, and 10-19 are "Run" and generate Run and Idle animation clips from any sprite sheet with 20 frames. Having sprite sheets with similarly sized actions can let you save a lot of time by reusing one or few block sheets.
• Visibility - When working with low resolution sprite sheets, it can be difficult to tell where one animation ends and another begins. With Animation Blocks, you get a live preview of whatever frames you current have selected meaning it's much harder to make mistakes when selecting. You can also scale the display of any sprites to make things as clear as possible.
• Easy - Animation Blocks is fairly intuitive and comes with concise documentation. Additionally, there are many pointers that show up in-engine to make things as straightforward as possible.

What's included?

• The core systems for Animation Blocks
• A custom inspector for editing animation blocks.
• A custom window for editing block sheets.
• A tutorial example for your to complete
• A completed version of the tutorial example for comparison

Before you buy

• Animation Blocks is built for sprite sheets. It won't work for other types of animation
• Animation Blocks only replaces the process of generating animation clips from sprite sheets. It doesn't replace animation controllers or sprite sheet slicing.

Not included

• The sprite sheet used in the trailer and marketing which can be found here