Changelog

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Capture

• Pixelate Assets turn a model, prefab or particle system into sprite sheets. Assets > Create > Pixelate > Pixelate Asset sets up the source, framing, clips and a Style Profile from the selection.
• Animation clips with their own frame rate and speed, and particle systems captured over time.
• Camera views for any number of directions, with Add Directions for 4, 8 or 16 views, and reusable Camera Rigs.
• Capture runs in the background in the Editor. No Play Mode, and nothing is added to your scenes.

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Preview

• A live Preview in the Inspector that matches Export pixel for pixel, with clip and view menus, playback (Space), and Lit, Unlit and Normal draw modes.
• Save GIF for sharing animations.
• Previews in the Project window, the Pixelate Browser and Unity’s object picker.

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Style Profiles and effects

• Style Profiles share one look across many assets, with per-asset overrides for single values and for turning an effect on or off.
• Seven built-in effects in a fixed pipeline: Lighting, Color Adjustments, Color Palette, Pixel Cleanup, Dithering, Lines and Palette Swap.
• An extension API for your own effects.

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Palettes

• Pixelate Palettes you can create, edit and sort, and import from .gpl, .pal and .hex files or PNG palette strips.
• Auto palettes built from each source’s own colors.

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Export

• PNG sprite sheets, sliced and imported with Point filtering and the right Pixels Per Unit.
• Optional Animation Clips, Animator Controller and Sprite Library.
• Normal maps linked as _NormalMap secondary textures for URP 2D lights.
• Configurable output folder and File Name Pattern, pivots, and in-place updates that keep your references working.

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Pixelate Browser

• One window for every Pixelate Asset, Style Profile, Palette and Camera Rig in the project, with search, filters, export status, batch Validate and Export, and Assign Style Profile.

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Project settings and samples

• Edit > Project Settings > Pixelate for defaults of new assets, where the Browser creates new items, export defaults, the startup update check and Project window previews.
• Samples: three Pixelate Assets (Chest, UnityChan and Fire), eight Style Profiles, 15 palettes and four Camera Rigs.

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Help

• Pixelate > Samples, Pixelate > Documentation and Pixelate > Get Help on Discord.
• The help icon of every Pixelate Inspector, effect and the Project Settings > Pixelate page opens the matching page of this documentation.

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Compatibility

• Unity 6.0 LTS and newer, with the Built-In Render Pipeline or URP. See Compatibility.