DragonDePlatino and DawnBringer's DawnLike assets, split up and named for use in texture atlases
DawnLike is great! It is a huge set of 16x16 tiles/sprites, many with two-frame animations, meant for roguelike and similar games. It was originally posted on OpenGameArt. It's CC-BY 4.0 licensed, requiring attribution to DawnBringer (he made the 16-color palette DawnLike uses, and DragonDePlatino specifically requires DawnBringer to receive credit). It's probably best to credit DragonDePlatino too.
DawnLike was published as many small spritesheets, with no name given for most sprites. This makes using it in a texture atlas a challenge. Game frameworks and engines often prefer sprites to be supplied as one large texture, with many smaller images on it; a texture atlas provides a way to look up a smaller image from the large texture, and may also provide grouping of related images (like frames of the same animation). It certainly helps to have names for sprites if you're looking them up, but it's also possible to do the lookups only by number or position.
I spent about a month, off and on, splitting up the over five thousand images in DawnLike into
separate, accurately-enough named sprites, and then I was able to pack them up into a convenient
libGDX atlas format using
this GDX Texture Packer GUI. The atlas
includes an outlined pixel-art-style font, PlainAndSimplePlus, which I made but don't require
credit for using. It should be treated as sharing the license of this repo, CC-BY 4.0. I also
later upscaled that atlas to 2x, 3x, and 4x using a simple image scaling algorithm related to
scale2x, available at my
Scallop repo. All of these original atlases are
available in the atlases directory. There are also newer, smaller atlases that use the libGDX
1.9.13 atlas format in the thirteen directory. If you want to pack an atlas yourself, such as
for a different framework or engine, then you can get the many individual images from the
renamed directory, and pack them however you need.
The sprites can all be previewed here on GitHub. These previews have the name before each image,
which is handy for knowing what to call a particular sprite. The different groups of sprite are
kept from the original DawnLike distribution, such as Ammo holding most ranged weapons and
Aquatic holding most water-dwelling creatures. Sprites with animation frames are shown as
animated GIFs.
There's a simple demo that uses this, so you can see it in action in your browser, here on GitHub Pages. The demo scales the sprites up using Hyllian's xBR-lv3 Shader, which makes them easier to see on high-DPI screens but loses the pixel-art details to some extent. A different demo avoids using any scaling shader, but also happens to be used to test a color-adjustment library, so if you try this unscaled demo, you can just ignore the rapidly-sped-up day-night cycle.