Zoë: Export SWF Animation as EaselJS SpriteSheets

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So... when are you gonna release your own HTML5 IDE? j/k, but this is awesome stuff and a great help to the community to bridge the divide. Keep it up Grant!

Clicking 'Export->' doesn't seem to do anything.

jomifo - this has been fixed in the latest build. It was a combination of a problem with the sample file and the app. Sorry for these teething problems. That's the risk we ran releasing an app that had been used internally in a specific way without adequate testing.

Grant- latest build worked beautifully. Thanks for this tool. Great timesaver.

man, this is a great contribution to the community.

thanks a lot!

Hi, Grant.

Inspiring work.

I found some minor bug regarding special chars. When clicked export, on the summary window, my directory special chars are being truncated. Also, on the output and input fields, the chars are being converted to HTML entities.

Thanks, G.
CaioToOn!

Cool, that is. My only concern is that if each frame is exported as a separate bitmap, it would lead to rather a lot of Kb to download for an Easel animation. I guess if you use a separate BitmapSequence for each character in your game or animation that would help a bit, as long as the animations were not that complex.

Would it be possible to export the individual symbols in the Flash animation as separate bitmaps which then get composited & animated dynamically in EaselJS? Then the JSON format would need to specify the positions of these sprites at each frame.

Will this work with actionscript(instead of timeline based) animations?

@Shaun - In theory Zoe should work with Actionscript animations, but currently it uses the root timeline to gauge the length of the animation, so your main timeline would need to match the length you want to export.

@ bigfish "My only concern is that if each frame is exported as a separate bitmap"

I'm not sure if EaselJS supports sprite sheets, but most of the time game designers use TexturePacker or Zwoptex to create a sprite sheet from the individual bitmaps. This is how it works for iOS games I'm developping using Cocos2D.

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I did an application with more features than this and more user frendly. Supports actionscript animations and empty main timelines.

Maybe you can use the code of my application to improve this one

Download installer or source code from here:

http://fermmm.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/swf-spritesheet-creator/

[...] この方法では下図のような画像ファイルが必要になりますが、これはアニメーションのSWFファイルがあれば、天才Grant Skinner作によるAIRアプリケーションのZoëで簡単に作成できます（[Zoë: Export SWF Animation as EaselJS SpriteSheets]）。 [...]

i can't set the quality of png.

Do you know if it's possible to dynamically generate Bitmap data in JS ? In which case it may be nice to add methods to BitmapSequence such as addBitmap so that we can create a sequence dynamically, not only from a static image.

[...] these. Furthermore there was a nice lineup of tools created by GS, his company and friends. EaslJS, Zoë Sprite sheet exporter and some impressive exporter from Flash to JavaScript. [...]

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[...] for faster drawing (see SWFSheet from Bit 101 or Zoë by Grant Skinner to aid creating [...]

Hi,

Any idea when you plan on open sourcing your tool? We have some feature specific for our needs we would like to develop.

Here is what we'd like to develop

- FPS in exported data
- Other exported data format (XML, SQL, project specific)

Thanks for creating that great tool.

Love the tool, but would love to edit the tool more: any idea as to when you will be releasing the source? I specifically need to adjust the number of columns on the exported .png sequence.

Appreciated!

i can't set the quality of png.

chintan - PNG32's are lossless (they don't have variable quality)

Hi Grant, I'm using Zoe v1.6 and I'm getting an issue with a stutter in my animation. As far as I can see its exporting frame 0 and 1 as the same image although they're different. I'm not using "resuse frames". I've tried exporting the animation using the Flash Professional export and the stuttering isn't there. Zoe has other advantages so it would be great to find a fix or workaround. I can send you the swf for testing if you'd like.

Cheers

Joe

just wondering, but when you are finished exporting, how do you use the json file and the spritesheet within your browser?

Hi Grant, thank you for Zoe, it's a great tool. I'm using it for an ActionScript project and I was wondering why the exported PNG is always on a 2048x2048 canvas? I might be wrong, but you could improve the portability by taking advantage of the power of 2 concept.

We could optimize the memory usage if we had more image format like 512x512 and 1024x1024.

Thanks!