I created a nice animation on toon boom animation pro(PLE) and exported to a series of images with a magenta background (for transparency).

Toon Boom animation pro spit out 20 images perfectly.  Now I am looking for a nice application that can stitch them togather into a spritesheet.  My only requirement is that I'd like the animation to be split up onto multiple rows which in my opinion would be ideal.

Any help?

Alright friends, I found the solution

Turns out this little GlueIt application does exactly what I need, it stitches the images togather and allows me to specify how many columns I want so it handles that also.  Has a nice little preview button so you can preview the animation before saving which is way cool

GlueIt 1.06 temporary homepage

Nice, I use SpriteSheetCreator which was made by one of the community members.  Demesta if I recall correctly.  Very easy to use, fast, small.

Another solution would be to use a content processor like this sample shows: http://creators.xna.com/en-US/sample/spritesheet. Then you don't have to build the sheets manually or with a tool; the content pipeline will just do it for you.

I suppose I should have searched here before I spent the past several hours writing a sprite sheet tool of my own, but that's what I did.
I wrote this little .NET application which is very easy to use and will simply generate a sprite sheet file for you from a directory of sequentially numbered image files.

Please note that I just wrote this and I've generated only 6 sprite sheets, so it is not very well tested at all. Having said that, if you find any bugs in it, please let me know.

I hope you find it as usefull as I have. You can download it here: (I think you can download it) http://cid-2bb94843841b1933.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/SpriteSheetAssembler/SpriteSheetAssembler.exe
 

I hope I'm not breaking any rules by posting this here.

Jaan

Nick just wrote an awesome one, and I was able to modify it to add the name of the file at the top of the sheet, name of sprite then a linebreak, rect then another linebreak, and a bool flag, it then repeats until done and adds a closing tag.

Here is his tool: http://nickgravelyn.com/2009/10/sprite-sheet-packer-tool/

While we're making a list - here's the one I created not too long ago...

http://www.crappycoding.com/2009/08/sprite-sheet-creator/

There's also a readme file. You can find both at:

 http://cid-2bb94843841b1933.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/SpriteSheetAssembler

Sorry for reposting.

Talryyn:

Here is his tool: http://nickgravelyn.com/2009/10/sprite-sheet-packer-tool/

To round things off, that is the little teaser post, here is the announcement post and a quick sample post:

http://nickgravelyn.com/2009/10/sprite-sheet-packer-tool-released/
http://nickgravelyn.com/2009/10/sprite-sheet-packer-tool-xna-gs-example/

I really like Nick's tool, thanks.  I'm going to try to use it later today :)

much appreciated everyone for both the links and the info

Alright, just an update regarding Nick's Sprite Sheet Packer tool and Nicks Sprite Sheet Test sample, they both work excellent and can both be found on his blog. One thing to note is that the output of the Sprite Sheet Packer tool (.txt) file just needs to be sorted alphabetically before you test your animation.

Nick's sprite sheet packer tool
Nick's sprite sheet test sample

RickyWh:

One thing to note is that the output of the Sprite Sheet Packer tool (.txt) file just needs to be sorted alphabetically before you test your animation.

The tool isn't really for animations, though you definitely can use it for that. The tool is essentially for taking a bunch of random images and making one single image in an efficient manner. The output text wasn't sorted because the tool made the assumption that you would look up a particular rectangle by name; not by an integer index.

This is an interesting tool, however it will not really work for me. I use torqueX, the sprites are usually packed like this:

1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8

all the same size. No dealing with text files etc. I have also made my own sprite sheet reader the same way. I went to pack a set of sprites and they came up like this:

6 5 2 4
8 7 1 3

these sprites are all the same size, etc. I don't get it. Maybe I will look at the source and see if I can adapt it for my needs, it was alot easier than the weird japanese tool I found that I cannot read.

Well there are a couple things at play here:

heh maybe I should just read the whole thread... The Glueit mentioned above does a great job. ; )

Thanks for the quick response btw.

Just wanted to point out that the tool that I wrote is designed only for images of the same size. It will very easily create a sprite sheet for you. It will automatically calculate the best colums/rows numbers that will achieve the most 'square' sprite sheet, and it allows you to change that arrangement if you desire.
Also, it will monitor the folder which you select to have your images, so that if any changes, you can press the 'Go' button again to re-make the sprite sheet. This is very helpful if you make changes and generate new image files and want to quickly spit out a new sprite sheet with the new changes.

http://cid-2bb94843841b1933.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/SpriteSheetAssembler

I've posted it on my Windows Live SkyDrive service... Feel free to download it.