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Hello, everyone! I'm currently ripping sprites from a game called "Gakuen Hetalia" for the PSP and I was wondering if there was a program that could organize sprites and put them together? I'll explain what I mean. 

If you look at Seychelles' sprites here, she has her base, her eyes, and her mouth animations.
(Which is great! Thanks to PPSSPP, GLIntercept, and the wonderful tutorial posts here about sprite ripping from PSP games w/ PPSSPP, I've been able to start something I hope to finish.) 






I could have sworn I saw a post about a tool that can organize split images/sprites together, but I can't seem to find it again.  In this case, it would be used to properly align her eye and mouth sprites over her base. I understand it can be done manually, but since I believe I saw a tool for it somewhere here, I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask. It would also be especially helpful to place the extremely split backgrounds in this game together properly for usage and uploading to TSR. But, if I am mistaken, I apologize. Either way, feedback is much appreciated!

The backgrounds currently look like this:








Any directions, clarification, advice, discussion, and/or solutions would be very appreciated! Thank you for your time and I hope you have a nice day!

oh, you can use Daaxar's sprite sheeter
https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-29374.html

(05-23-2017, 03:06 PM)kendotlibero Wrote: [ -> ]oh, you can use Daaxar's sprite sheeter
https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-29374.html

Thank you very much! I'll test it out right away!

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I should probably ask if it'll help me align sprites like this together as well:











They're all split apart (especially the body) and it'd be tedious to try and piece them back together. Unless there's nothing that can be done about it. In that case, I'll stick to my original plan. In either case, thank you very much for any feedback!

This would be possible if these were ripped directly and there were some files containing information on piecing them together. Unfortunately this can't be automated with just the images.

(05-24-2017, 03:49 AM)puggsoy Wrote: [ -> ]This would be possible if these were ripped directly and there were some files containing information on piecing them together. Unfortunately this can't be automated with just the images.

That's very helpful to know. Thank you very much! I might possibly look into doing that myself then. If not, I think I should be able to piece their bases together on my own. Albeit, it'll be time consuming, but at least I have an idea on how to tackle it. Again, thank you very much!

Oh yeah
I have that kind of problem too with a game called "Deathsmiles"
the only way I can think to fix it is Gimp and a lot of patience

makes me think i should probably code a program to let users automate this

like it would take in a text file with source rectangles and destination rectangles
that way you could easily batch-arrange images with one text file of code

(come to think of it, wouldn't some imagemagick code allow for that ?)

Would that really be very useful though? I mean making those text files would be just as annoying as manually constructing them (if not more so), the only use I can think of is if you have a large number of files that are to be reconstructed in the exact same way. This might work for the background images, but from past experience images like the upper body one are almost always different (since they're packed in an optimized way).

As for imagemagick, I'm not too sure, but a GIMP plugin is definitely possible (or already exists).

I believe I had an bizarre workaround for situations where tiles need to be rearranged. It was an application where you could define the height and width of the the tiles, and it would dump them in a folder as individual images. You could then restitch them together with however many width-ways that you wanted.

If I remember to look after I get home, I'll try to find it for you. If you have no luck, message me in a few days and remind me to try and find it