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[bigtunacan]

I've googled and haven't come up with anything here.

I want to be able to load my sprites into a tool and create bounding boxes for my sprites that I can then save off to a file and load into my sprite class in game. Anyone know of a good tool out there for this already? I would love to not have to roll my own tool

[BeerNutts]

Why would you want to do that? Any decent API that allows your to load a sprite will also allow you to get the width and height of the sprite. Isn't that all a bounding box is?

[bigtunacan]

@BeerNutts,

Width & height of sprite can be used as a bounding box in some situations; where you don't care what area of the sprite is hit; same goes for per pixel collisions. In my case I want to be able to define 1 or more bounding boxes for a sprite that allow me to define what specific area of the sprite was hit. For example, I want to be able to tell the difference of when a character is shot in the legs, versus the head, head shot is instant kill; leg shots take multiple hits, etc... This would be just one example where being able to define my own custom bounding boxes come in handy.

[BeerNutts]

OIC, I misunderstood. Well, outside of creating your own tool to do this, or to manually enter the data into an xml file, I'm not familiar with an external tool that does this.