bug with texture atlas maker

[itszander]

Hi,
I'm experiencing what I think is a bug with atlas maker.  There's TONS of empty space on the top of the atlas.   From what I can tell there's no reason I can see why 3/4 of the atlas is empty.

see the attached picture for an example.

Help?

-zander

[ArenMook]

Unity is really bad at packing long & narrow sprites. Did you try not using the unity texture packer? It's an option on the atlas maker.

[itszander]

hi all, just an update to this.

What I've found is that if you uncheck use unity's texture packer inside the nGUI atlas maker, you can generally (but not always) avoid these errors.

I'm building for iOS so having texture atlas bloating was doubling my texture memory footprint. a huge problem. But, it's now fixed as long as you dont use unity's packer.

-Z