Bevy Heterogenous Texture Atlas Loader

Bevy Heterogenous Texture Atlas Loader allows you to load heterogenous texture atlases from a RON file manifest.

Bevy Compatibility

| version | bevy | | ------- | ---- | | 0.7+ | 0.8 | | 0.6 | 0.7 | | < 0.6 | 0.6 |

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Basic usage

1. Add to your project's Cargo.toml [dependencies] section

   toml bevy_heterogeneous_texture_atlas_loader = "0.9.2"

2. Add the TextureAtlasLoaderPlugin to your Bevy App. rust use bevy_heterogeneous_texture_atlas_loader::*; app.add_plugin(TextureAtlasLoaderPlugin);

3. Add the atlas source image and .ron manifest to your assets folder.

4. Load the texture atlas manifest using the asset server: rust let texture_atlas: Handle<TextureAtlas> = asset_server.load("<path>.ron"); The plugin will then load the atlas image and create the TextureAtlas asset automatically.

5. The TextureAtlas's sprite indices respect the order of the sprites in the manifest. Atlas index 0 will be the first sprite in the manifest, 1 the second, and so on. You can also use the TextureAtlas::get_texture_index method to look up the index using an asset path: rust texture_atlas.get_texture_index(&Handle::weak("example.png#sprite_name".into()))

   which you can see used in \examples\example.rs

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The Manifest

• To create a manifest for a sprite sheet with irregular sized and positioned sprites like:

  

1. Create a .ron file in your assets folder.

   The sprite indices in the output TextureAtlas are ordered implicitly according to the order of the input list sprite rects.

• The name field is used to give a sprite a unique name that can be used to look up their TextureAtlas index using a weak Handle<Image> with the asset_path "example.png#sprite_name".

  ```rust ( // Path to the texture atlas source image file path: "example.png",

  // List of sprites        
  sprites: [    
      (
          // use a weak handle with the asset path
          //      "example.png#rothko" 
          // to retrieve this sprite's index using TextureAtlas::get_texture_index.
          name: "rothko",  
  
          // top left x coordinate of the sprite in pixels
          x: 18,           
  
          // top left y coordinate of the sprite in pixels
          y: 19,              
  
          // width of the sprite in pixels
          w: 46,              
  
          // height of the sprite in pixels
          h: 48               
      ),
      (
          name: "face", 
          x: 93, 
          y: 108, 
          w: 32, 
          h: 31
      ),
      (
          name: "patches", 
          x: 176, 
          y: 34, 
          w: 20, 
          h: 34
      ),
  ])
  

  ) ```

• If you don't need names for the sprites, you can leave out the name field: ```rust ( path: "example.png",

  sprites:[         
      (    
          // sprite at atlas index 0
          x: 18, 
          y: 19, 
          w: 46, 
          h: 48
      ),
      // ...
  ]
  

  ) ```

Examples

• minimal.rs

  Loads a texture atlas and cycles through its textures. Run with cargo run --example minimal

• example.rs

  Example of loading and displaying a texture atlas. Run with cargo run --example example

• bevy_asset_loader.rs

  Example using bevy_asset_loader to manage loading. Run with cargo run --example bevy_asset_loader