ShoeBox Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• Change letter spacing in a bitmap font

  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: Reddit / 5 months ago

• how to make sprite sheets?

  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: Reddit / 9 months ago

• Creating a hand anti-aliased pixel font to use in a Label?

  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: Reddit / 10 months ago

• What is the one gamemaking tool you use that you wish more people knew about?

  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: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Need help! (Hollow knight mod)

  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: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Finally found time trying Ian's way of modeling from Image planes. Here's test render. Scene still work in progress, but feedback always appreciated.

  If you are making a building facade you don't need completely flat textures. Regular pictures should do, and you can do perspective correction with something like Shoebox's texture ripper. Google images or StreetView work well enough for that, of course those images may be copyrighted in a way that you can't use them for comercial usage, but if you are just doing practice scenes for yourself it's perfectly fine. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• I need some free alternatives lads

  Though making an actual spritesheet by yourself is. a lil complicated, especially xmls and stuff but there is a free program that is very lightweight and will help you make your own xmls though the download is very Darn complicated so just follow the instructions in this comment section, you'll find it if you scroll down a lil. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• I just love turning pictures into props. It reminds me of classic Gmod. Gotta keep the art alive

  Shoebox might be useful for you for ripping textures off images. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago