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So this is similar to a tilemap in how you pick tiles based on their position on the map. I can draw sprites with just refernces to this sheet that sounds pretty good. I gotta look into this for when i spawn large groups of enemies with various gear.
For now on my main characters I'm sticking with the 10 sprite nodes stacked.
@Fizz similar but for games/engines that don't use uniform tile maps you basically just have a metadata set alongside the image that indexes where each sub-image is located in it.
It doesn't really change the end product, and as I said most engines already work like this for most 2d stuff, and many editors will pack for you if you tell them. You're just indexing portions of a texture, but it uses an order of magnitude less memory/storage and loads faster even off slow storage or web streaming.
@Fizz from a quick look it seems there's a quite popular open source one that specifically outputs formats for godot as well.
https://github.com/Donitzo/godot-universal-spritepacker