framepacker

framepacker

framepacker is a freeware which implements a texture bin packing algorithm. It’s similar to texture tools like the TexturePacker. You are free to use, copy, modify or distribute it under the MIT license.

It implements a bin packer algorithm refer to the Binary Tree Bin Packing Algorithm.

Compile

A C++ 11 compiler is required to compile the source code. The framepacker::packer template class in framepacker.hpp is the algorithm implementation. And it offers a specialization in framepacker.cpp using stb image.

Usage

It works as a command line tool:

• framepacker FILE_LIST [-o output_file] [OPTIONS] - Packs some images
• FILE_LIST
  • := file * : Eg. file1.png file2.png
• OPTIONS
  • := -p N : Padding, default to 1
  • := -s MxN : Expected texture size, eg. 256x512, may enlarge result
  • := -t : Disable rotation
  • := -w : Disable forcing texture to POT (Power of 2)
  • := -m : Disable alpha trim

Eg. “framepacker foo.png bar.png -o out”, it generates a packed out.png image and another out.json meta data which includes packing information to look up slices from the image.

Performance

framepacker is fast, it packs 200 textures in less than 0.15s on common desktop machines at 2015.