How to use Texture Atlas with TexturePacker

[WIP]

Using a texture Atlas will generally allow you to :

• save memory, by packing all your sprites into a single texture
• increase your framerate, by optimising the GPU usage
• make your game starts faster, by loading a single texture

In this tutorial we are gonna to see how to :

• use TexturePacker to create a texture atlas
• import the generated texture into a melonJS project
• add a static sprite
• add an animation

create a Texture atlas

To create a new texture atlas, simply start TexturePacker and select the generic JSON (Array) framework :

Recommended settings :

• use "Power of Two" size for the texture, to optimize the use of GPU memory
• we recommend not to use texture rotation when possible (although this will increase the final texture size), as it forces melonJS to apply a default rotation angle when drawing sprites and, based on how many sprites are to be displayed, can impact performance.

melonJS boilerplate

add the static background

add the cap guy animation

source code

https://github.com/melonjs/melonJS/tree/master/examples/texturepacker