Feature Request Multi-Select editing and Auto-Name for 2D Sprite Editor

This feature probably has been asked multiple times, but...

• Select 2 or 3 slices and modify their Pivot all at once.

• Select 2 or 3 slices and name them immediately into Idle_0, Idle_1, Idle_2. Auto-suffix?

That's all!

 

Having something like that builtin would be nice. For inspiration here is the functionality in my current editor script to speedup doing such actions.

Pivot actions should be more or less obvious. Size modification ones either adjust or set the position of edges relative to pivot position while keeping pivot position relative to texture fixed thus allowing to perform trimming operations.

Input is based on selection in project window. Thus allowing to modify sprites from multiple textures at the same time.

 

Shift pivot -> moves the pivot of each sprite relative to previous position

pivot[i] = old_pivot[i]+V2(x, y)

, the numerical values of pivot in selected sprites don't need to be identical. This is useful if you have already previously assigned pivot to multiple sprites and want to change it's logical position, for example from bottom of feet to the middle of body.
If all the sprites had same dimensions and logical positioning of drawn object, set pivot could also be used for adjustments. But that's not always possible. The sprite dimensions and logical positioning may differ due to various situations: the sprites where exported from animation software with tight packing setting, sometimes it's impractical to pad them to same size(imagine character swinging huge cartoony weapon one sprite very tall and one very wide), sprites being identical size within texture but trimmed within unity sprite editor for the purpose of optimizing packing, frames having same size within each animation but different size across different animations, animation (like jump or lunge forward) drawn with some inherent movement to help artist visualize it but for gameplay and coding reasons drawn movement being replaced by scripted movment.

Set pivot -> assigns entered numbers to all the selected sprites.

pivot[i] = V2(x, y)

. This is useful during initial setup, assuming all the sprites have same rectangle size and logical positioning.

Sync pivot-> copies pivot position from first sprite to the rest of sprites.

pivot[i] = pivot[0]

. Workflow with this one is that you position pivot for one of the sprites with mouse in the sprite editor and afterwards click sync pivot. Same could be done with "set pivot", but this command saves you a few clicks and need to type pivot coordinates by hand.

 

I second this idea!
I'm currently in the process of changing the pivot point of 150 sprites from center to bottom center and cannot help but think that there has to be another way to do something like this in bulk. Any work on the sprite editor would be much appreciated!