I started this thread because I’m confused about whether my PR will be handled and about sbox’s current support for Sprites. In my view:
sbox’s current support for Sprite is quite rough: the hard-to-use .sprite asset system, the inability to specify a frame index for a sprite in the editor, and the completely unclear 2D physics (Box2D, maybe off-topic btw). A viable option for handling these things is to code corresponding management scripts. Then, custom shader effects for Sprites cannot be solved by writing code unless a custom Sprite Rendering system is implemented in the game project; for this reason, I submitted a PR to make it extensible for custom shader effects.
I don’t know whether my PR conforms to community norms, whether the sbox team will accept it, what the community’s attitude toward the sprite system is, whether anyone is working on a more complete sprite system, whether there are likewise developers in the community who need sprites or whose needs for sprites differ, and what suggestions and thoughts developers in the community have about the current sprite rendering system.
Say whatever you want to say; plz let me know!
