DawnLikeAtlas

DragonDePlatino and DawnBringer's DawnLike assets, split up and named for use in texture atlases

tl;dr

There are libGDX atlases with a whole lot of pixel-art sprites in the thirteen directory, or atlases if you have to use an older version of libGDX (that is, 1.9.12 or older). You only need Dawnlike.atlas, Dawnlike.png, and optionally font.fnt to use this without scaled assets. You can still scale up the sprites and font yourself, probably to an integer multiple.

What?

DawnLike is great! It is a huge set of 16x16 tiles/sprites, many with two-frame animations, meant for roguelike and similar games. It was originally posted on OpenGameArt. It's CC-BY 4.0 licensed, requiring attribution to DawnBringer (he made the 16-color palette DawnLike uses, and DragonDePlatino specifically requires DawnBringer to receive credit). It's probably best to credit DragonDePlatino too.

But...

DawnLike was published as many small spritesheets, with no name given for most sprites. This makes using it in a texture atlas a challenge. Game frameworks and engines often prefer sprites to be supplied as one large texture, with many smaller images on it; a texture atlas provides a way to look up a smaller image from the large texture, and may also provide grouping of related images (like frames of the same animation). It certainly helps to have names for sprites if you're looking them up, but it's also possible to do the lookups only by number or position.

So!

I spent about a month, off and on, splitting up the over five thousand images in DawnLike into separate, accurately-enough named sprites, and then I was able to pack them up into a convenient libGDX atlas format using this GDX Texture Packer GUI. The atlas includes an outlined pixel-art-style font, PlainAndSimplePlus, which I made but don't require credit for using. It should be treated as sharing the license of this repo, CC-BY 4.0. I also later upscaled that atlas to 2x, 3x, and 4x using a simple image scaling algorithm related to scale2x, available at my Scallop repo. All of these original atlases are available in the atlases directory. There are also newer, smaller atlases that use the libGDX 1.9.13 atlas format in the thirteen directory. If you want to pack an atlas yourself, such as for a different framework or engine, then you can get the many individual images from the renamed directory, and pack them however you need.

How?

The sprites can all be previewed here on GitHub. These previews have the name before each image, which is handy for knowing what to call a particular sprite. The different groups of sprite are kept from the original DawnLike distribution, such as Ammo holding most ranged weapons and Aquatic holding most water-dwelling creatures. Sprites with animation frames are shown as animated GIFs.

Also,

There's a simple demo that uses this, so you can see it in action in your browser, here on GitHub Pages. This first demo scales up the sprites 2x without any other changes, so each pixel is visible. There's another demo here. The second demo scales the sprites up using Hyllian's xBR-lv3 Shader, which makes them easier to see on high-DPI screens but loses the pixel-art details to some extent. The first shader is quite a bit newer, so it has more fanciness like smooth pop-in and fade-out for areas that just became visible or concealed, respectively.