Using sprites

Using sprites is an important part of any game creation task!

To make this process more easy, PYV provides a standard format that you can use out-of-the-box and is compatible with web technologies.

A spritesheet is basically a huge image that stores all your sprites. By using both a .png and a .json file that acts like a global index with a set of coordinates, the game engine empowers you by quickly loading all your sprites, and these sprites become available within your source-code context.

To describe this quickly, and make things less abstract here's a minimalistic example of how you can handle your spritheets:

• Json map
• Image file

The source-code that uses these files can be viewed Here, at the given line. As you can see, the parameter provided is simply the name of the spritesheet, with no file extension. You can, however specify a path.

To create spritesheets that stick to this format you need some tools.

Here is the tool that allows you to pack or unpack spritesheets TexturePacker Online