Paper Doll for Unity

Do you have any ideas on how to make PaperDoll without needing the textures in Resources? I'm developing a multiplayer game, and the dedicated server can optimize away non-read/write textures but only if they're not in a protected Resources folder. So, as a result my container size for the dedicated servers are massive, for a headless instance that coincidentally is never going to need to display the textures.

In PaperDoll's SetTexture you need to change the line to:

if (!texturePath.Equals("") && !texturePath.Equals(TexturePath))

Currently, that ! is missing on the textureParth.Equals, so if someone tries to swap the sprite texture at runtime it will fail to set the TexturePath.

p.s. Love all of your products, I've grabbed them all. How are things coming on an update for the farmer pack (also they have a wider range of ramps for farmer, so you'd need a new shader pack for that), eye updates and weapons, etc? Also, SpriteImporter probably needs an update soon as they've changed the API again for Unity 6. Looks like they're giving us a lot more control over the importer and they've been refactoring it.

I've made a convenient slider for your material pack:

Also, regarding the shader pack you should probably upload a version for Unity 6 which has the ramps fixed. I fixed them on my side but it'll reduce confusion to just have them set correctly in a separate package download. Sorry for merging all my comments into one on this kind of unrelated thread.

Good sir, I paid $100 for a tool in Unity asset store that does part of this and way more complicated.  You are a life saver and have made independent devs be able to manage a lot more :D
Thank you so much!

Simple, works great and to the point. It even works with my custom animator script. 

I made something similar a few years back but it was cumbersome. It required scriptable objects to match up stuff and really just a pain. 

Thank you for your service haha. 

Hello. I bought your package and everything works just fine. But how can I now play the sword animations from the other character sheet?

I did try your script, and it does not work for me.

I followed your YouTube tutorial and your documentation, and the result is that the child layers are not as animated as they should be. What am I doing wrong? using Unity 2022.3

Child layer:Tree:Folders:

Hi! I'm excited to implement this tool into the current project I'm working on. However, I'm having a bit of trouble.

I've input the correct file path to the folder with my sliced sprite sheets in it and I am receiving the following error:

I'm pretty much trying to achieve what you showcase in the Paper Doll example video. My animations/animation controller for my base sprite renderer are working correctly. I noticed that when I try to input a texture 'sprite' into that slot of the Paper Doll component that I can only put the unsliced version in the slot? See below that a folder-looking file is what's placed there because it won't allow me to place a single image.

Could this be an issue with the file type? My sprites and spritesheets are all PNGs. Here's a screenshot of my the sprite folder I'm directing to for the base:

Is it a problem that my spritesheets are split up? Should they be on one sheet for this to work?

I hope you're able to help me out! Thanks so much for any advice you can provide.

Update: 

I did add the Forward Slash to the file path and that did not fix it. I think it has to do with the fact the Replacement Texture slot is only accepting the full spritesheet rather than one of the sliced sprites...When I slice the spritesheets in Unity they turn into 'Sprites' rather than 'Texture2Ds' and maybe that explains why I can't seem to add the sliced images into the Replacement Texture location I think? Unless this is not even the issue and it has to do with my sprites being on multiple spritesheets rather than one.

Apologies for such a long comment - just want to give as much info as possible. Thanks!

Absolutely amazing! This script is a huge time saver for anyone working with a layered sprite system. It's short, simple, and straight to the point which makes using and referencing a breeze! I used this as the foundation for a custom character creator using Seliel's Mana Seed character which has 15 layers, up to ~8 options for each layer, and ~100 animations! Automation is necessary for times like this and this script makes that easy. Thank you, DirePixel. Your work is much appreciated.

Hi, this looks veyr useful, but I do have a question about weapon animations.

Since part of weapon animation is behind player and part is in front, I would make two additional "layers" to paper doll, right? And I would split for example the sword animation file into sword_behind and sword_front files, while keeping the empty sprites so it lines up with basic skin layer and I can swap for bow or whaterver weapon?

Just wanna make sure I understand the capabilities (and limitations, if any). :)

Hi! While it seems to be the exact thing I'm looking for, I can't get it to work. I set up everything like you did in the instructions and the video but it still says "[Renderer] found no sprites in the spritesheet or spritesheet was not found." I'm trying to figure this out for days but I seem to miss something here. :(