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by vunderba 33 days ago
It’s similar to what tools like Automatic1111 and ComfyUI do which embed the workflow and pipeline as EXIF so the image can be recreated later.

The biggest issue I see with this is that, depending on the graphics editor, export formats, etc, this information can easily be lost and/or mangled.
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chr15m 33 days ago
It's true, editors can cause a problem if they strip the metadata.

The idea is to only add the metadata as a final step when you export the spritesheet, so at that point there's no need to edit further.

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vunderba 33 days ago
Yeah. One possibility is you might want to look into possibly developing this concept as a plug-in for something like Aseprite [1]. That's the one I personally use when doing sprite work and it exports a spritesheet and accompanying JSON offset metadata.

[1] - https://www.aseprite.org/

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