Technical Art bridges the gap between artists and developers. The goal is to streamline production, improve workflows and optimize assets for performance. It involves building modular and reliable solutions through documentation, custom tools, scripts and smart pipelines that are easy to use, simple to learn and flexible to build on.
Tech Art
Spine Tag Helper is a compact Photoshop UXP plugin for tagging PSD Layers and Groups quickly and efficiently. It’s designed as a companion to Esoteric Software’s free PhotoshopToSpine script, helping you prepare files for export to Spine or for efficient PNG asset management.
Easily apply Spine-compatible tags like [merge], [ignore], [scale:0.5], and more. Key features include batch tagging, illegal tag detection, full-name preview, setting of color labels, and tag descriptions with tooltips. This should speed up your workflow and keep the export process clean and organized.
CUSTOM SPINE SCRIPT
This is a preview of a customized version of the PhotoshopToSpine script, with extra functionality, adjusted for use in a production pipeline.
Key improvements
- Add Base Folders template button.
- Center Ruler Origin by clicking a button.
- Help & Tag Info updated.
- Path Browsing quick buttons to set export paths.
- Flexible Paths toggle single or both image + JSON
- Custom JSON field to set your own JSON filename.
- History Tracking button for the patch log.
- + more usability enhancements
These tweaks streamline asset management and export workflows between Photoshop and Spine, increasing efficiency and reusability throughout production.
This version is made for in-house use only and is not publicly available.
Trim Sheet PBR
The Roughness, AO and Metalness maps are packed into the individual RGB channels for optimization. Trim textures are memory efficient and ideal for game development.
