PSD Importer?

I analyzed the size of the assets using the Editor.log. The *.psb asset seems to be the same size with and without packaging in SpriteAtlas. Ok thanks, I'll use this workaround to use multiple atlas sheets.

 

I do a PSB import (with "Use a Rig", "Use Layer Group", "layer Mapping: Use Layer ID" properties) and get a prefab. Then I add components to objects (such as animation, particles, custom behaviors) in this prefab. If after that I rename one of the PSB layers, then inside the prefab all components will be deleted from this object. Is this the expected behavior?
PSD Importer v 6.0.3

 

When I merge layers using Layer Management, some information is lost.
screen record - https://youtube.com/shorts/6pVGBhF4e4w?feature=share
psb - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LsB-uvMcTMz6jzCwKnQAtPTITbBIeT4C/view?usp=sharing

 

My last two posts are two different bugs. The video shows how some of the lines disappear when the layers are merged. Okay, I'll submit these issues as a bug report.

 

Hey! Took me a while as I had to wait for the latest Unity update.

I finally tried this and unfortunately it does not appear to solve the issue in its current state. It does increase the padding between the sprites which is a step in the right direction, but the "Extrude Edges" value that should increase the size of the meshes beyond the edges of the sprites does not do anything. I have looked up the issue and have not been able to find a solution to this. Perhaps I am missing something.

 

We tried using PSD importer for props and characters when building level maps. But have a problem with props. For example when building a tree... we use one sprite for the trunk, and then one sprite duplicated say 5-10 times for the leafy part of the tree. But PSD importer will duplicate the bush 10 times in the texture sheet, instead of it appearing just once, bloating the memory. Is there any way to avoid this duplication please?

 

Thanks for taking a look.
yes, here is an example... photoshop file... (sent to you separately) only 2 sprites, pasted into 2 groups, of 5 layers.
2 are unscaled and not-rotated ( the large mushrooms, are identical ) the small mushroom just has a small scale but is the same sprite. The two grasses are the same sprite, at same size, but one has a rotation....
If building these prefabs by hand in unity... they would still only use 2 sprites... and you could build a whole host of prefabs out of a small number of sprites in this way...


However, psd importer does not recognize that the layers are using the same sprite... and quickly fills up the texture sheets with duplicate images.... Ideally, the importer should be able to recognize that the source image is the same, and just use one image each in the sprite sheet. ( one mushroom, and one grass )


I understand this would be difficult to achieve if the same sprites are re-used in a separate .psd file... but within a single psd file import, it should be do-able, useful and a great texture/memory optimization.

It would also speed up the artist pipeline process, props are currently built... exported, imported as separate png's then manually put back together in unity, one sprite and prefab at a time. if PSD-importer, could import without the duplicates... the props could all be imported at once from a single psd in one single import action.

 

Thanks for the quick reply, yes I suspected that that would be the answer, but I thought I'd ask anyway as it would be so useful to many I think.
I suppose it depends what information you have access to in the PSD file... If you know the source image file info/path ( sprite ) conceivably you could find duplicate images across layers... then if you have rotation and scale, you could apply that to the generated gameobject in unity instead of to the image import or spritesheet uv's... I guess it also depends on if the image loads in as already flattened and transformed or not.... if that is the case, then as you say..... would be very difficult to do.
Is the psd importer source code available ?
Thanks for the clarification.

 

Thanks for trying that Ted much appreciated. I'll let you know if I get anywhere.

...update...-> I'm not currently working on this... but if I get back to it, I'll post update...

 

Is there a way to achieve something similiar to either of these options using PSD importer 6? What would a viable workaround be?

EDIT: I'm looking for this because in PSD importer 6 the cutouts in the sprite editor of each layer are put so close together I get a lot of artefacts on the edges of the cutouts from the layer next to it.

 

To add more info to my problem mentioned above: My sprite is showing artefacts like this:


And this seems to be because the PSD importer 6 automatically slices layers and puts them too close together so you'll often get a piece of the next layer in your sprite.



I've played around with all import settings and I can't get this resolved. What would be a valid workaround for this? Updating to Unity 2022.2 Tech Stream isn't an option so late in development.

Cheers.