Texture Packer won't run

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I downloaded texture packer here https://code.google.com/p/libgdx-texturepacker-gui/downloads/detail?name=gdx-texturepacker-3.2.0.zip&can=2&q=

When I run the .jar file it just shuts down before even displaying the gui. Is anyone experiencing a similar problem? I am running OSX El Capitan.

Did you find how to run it? It's not a problem with Java but an error gets displayed: `Usage: inputDir [outputDir] [packFileName] [settingsFileName]` — Neerkoli, Aug 09 '16 at 07:10
I found out a workaround by providing arguments via configuration editor. But there's no GUI displayed. — Neerkoli, Aug 09 '16 at 07:24
To be honest I just switched to Windows based computer and did all texture making there. That worked. — potato, Aug 12 '16 at 11:46

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 25 '17 at 03:31

The project is quite old so you can try it's successor: gdx-texture-packer-gui.

[The] project is a successor of Aurelien Ribon's project with whole new GUI and features.

You can download the tool here: https://github.com/crashinvaders/gdx-texture-packer-gui/releases

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 11 '15 at 17:07

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Do you have the Java runtime environment installed on your computer or just the Java development kit? I don't use the texture packer, but I had a similar problem with the Android SDK manager (it shut down before displaying the GUI) on a new computer where I had only installed the Java JDK. After installing the JRE then it worked fine.

answered Dec 11 '15 at 17:07

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Users-MacBook-Pro:~ username$ java -version java version "1.8.0_65" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_65-b17) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.65-b01, mixed mode) // This is from terminal. I think I got JRE installed – potato Dec 11 '15 at 19:13

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 13 '15 at 09:18

Try this: Create a txt file and change its extension to ".bat". Right click to file and select modify. Copy this into file: "java -jar "C:\Users\fat2019\Desktop\gdx-texturepacker-3.2.0\gdx-texturepacker.jar" Change path to your own where gdx-texturepacker.jar file is. Then save and close. Double click file.

edit: this is for windows.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 11 '16 at 19:12

I have the same problem. Using Windows 7 I have to do this:

Go to your java directory and copy your java path

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_40\bin

Right click on my computer,
Click properties
Go to "Advanced system settings" click ,
Click on Environment variables.
Go to System variables section, and you will find an entry called path.
Double click on path
Add a semicolon (;) to the end of that line
After the semicolon paste your path previously copied: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_40\bin
Apply

It must be enough. Your file should run at this point. Double click it and go to the end, put a semicolon and paste your path, apply and ok. It should run now.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 13 '16 at 19:48

For Mac I downloaded the free version of https://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker/download

This saves as .txt rather than .atlas for some reason.

After adding the animation I got errors in batch.draw ... casting to TextureRegion fixed that.

As always, I have no idea if this will cause problems later but there you go. Looks good so far. :)

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