Let's create our first spritesheet that will contain all of the images that we've used before and the new images that we'll be using very soon as follows:
Of course, before we create spritesheet, we need to install TexturePacker. Visit http://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker/download and download the latest version of TexturePacker.
When the download completes, open the downloaded
.dmgfile and it will mount a new drive calledTexturePacker. It should open inFinderstraight away.Drag the
TexturePacker.appin theApplicationsshortcut and you have TexturePacker installed. Now, we're ready to create the spritesheet itself.Open the TexturePacker application (by navigating to Applications | TexturePacker.app). It will create a blank project at the start.
Open the book's supporting files at the
Chapter_04/Assets/Spritesheet/hdfolder inFinder. This folder contains the Retina version of the images that we're going to use in our game. We're going to generate...