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Best way to atlas texture2Ds used on quads?
Hello again! Quick question here (hopefully)
In our game, we've implemented a 2.5d-type environment with textured quads and 3d models in a 3d perspective environment. We used textured quads as opposed to Unity's default "sprite" objects because of Z-sorting issues with a 3D perspective camera.
Now, we're looking for a way to improve performance. One of our first options is to atlas textures together into multiple larger sheets. What's the best way to (retroactively) go about this?
I tried using unity's "sprite" object with the "multiple" option to cut out from a sprite sheet, but the individual cut out sprites don't seem to be able to be applied as a texture 2d to a quad. Is our best bet to get a 3rd party plugin like this?
Thanks in advance!
Easiest would be third-party tools. If all the individual images are the same size, writing the code for your quads to use an atlas would not be difficult.
The images aren't the same size... Do you have any experience with the texture packer plugin? Any you might recommend?
I've only used EZGUI (UI creating package with a texture packer). I understand that Unity's new GUI system will be built on NGUI, so if you went with a GUI package (rather than just a texture packing package), NGUI would be my choice. TexturePacker has been mentioned on this list a few times in the last year, but I don't know anything about it.
