Pixa VS ShoeBox

Hey thanks for checking out Bear! Yes, Bear is still in quite active development (and we've hired a few people recently!), we're just heads-down on Bear 2 right now. It's a huge release with a lot of new features that you can get a better feel for in our forum. There's a beta for the Mac right now with iOS coming soon. If you're interested in trying it, leave a comment on this thread and we'll get you in with the... Source: about 1 year ago

You might be right. If that's true, then it's a major problem, because according to the Shiny Frog website, they have sixteen employees at the company. Source: over 1 year ago

Regarding small team, they are not as small as one might think, 16 people: https://shinyfrog.net Craft was about the same size last year, and look what they've done in these 12 months. Source: over 1 year ago

I get that Bear 2 has been in the oven for a while, and I'm not here to tell anyone how to live their life. But I'd argue it's a little excessive to worry that a 16-person company and its app might be dead if they haven't released something new in just 30 days. Source: almost 2 years ago

The subscription doesn’t pay for iCloud anyway, it pays for continued development. I have been looking at the team’s page and seen they have been growing over the months. This is what our subscriptions are paying. Source: over 2 years ago

I managed to solve it by generating a bitmap font with the Shoebox. It automatically trims every character in a font thus removing the empty space. This solution is far from the best, but unfortunately I didn't find any alternative for adjusting kerning (individual letter spacing). Source: over 1 year ago

There is a great free tool called shoebox. It would sort pngs together into one image and even do sheet animations from gifs Saved us alot of time in game development. Maybe it can help you Https://renderhjs.net/shoebox/. Source: almost 2 years ago

This tip is just what I was looking for! I checked out some .FNT tools and found a nice tool called Shoebox (http://renderhjs.net/shoebox/) which neatly packs your font sprite and seems a bit more user friendly. Now it's working great in Godot, cheers mate. Source: almost 2 years ago

Shoebox - a free tool to manipulate and export photos for certain gamedev purposes, like spritesheet packing, bitmap font creation, masking and even ripping textures off of images. Source: about 2 years ago

I can't make spritesheets, but I suggest you use this application to make spritesheets for you. I cannot gurantee the quality, but I did use it and it seemed to work well. Http://renderhjs.net/shoebox/. Source: about 2 years ago