Question around importing sprites

STEVONATRON

Hi,

I'm not sure if I'm missing an important step somewhere, but when I import sprites, they refuse to be added to the Animation timeline unless I first open the Sprite Editor and move the pivot (even if I don't need to move the pivot).

Is there something I'm not doing (like enabling something when importing the sprites)? I remember hearing in one of the tutorials that the pivot is supposed to automatically align to the bottom-centre by default, but mine always import with it in the centre, so I'm wondering if this is related to the problem?

STEVONATRON

There's a chance I've figured out the problem to this and hopefully it could help others. In the Inspector tab, my Sprite mode was set to 'Multiple' - which I thought was correct for dealing for more than one image.

But when I changed this setting to 'Single', it opened up the option to alter the pivot position. This worked when I had 60 sprites selected at the same time.

To me this is totally back-to-front, but it worked so I'm not complaining. I can now drag and drop all those 60 sprites into the animation timeline without the arduous chore of going through every sprite and manually changing the pivot point.

ChrisIceBox

Yes, it does seem that Sprites do default to Multiple mode which can be confusing.

This is Unity's built-in behaviour, however, and not something AC can control.

STEVONATRON

Hi Chris - yes I should have said that it's a Unity quirk rather than any fault of AC