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George Sealy
George Sealy

Reputation: 966

How to create json rectangle data from a Photoshop script

I have a photoshop script that is cutting up layers of a PSD file into tiles (it's for a parallax game engine). This works well, but now I want to be able to create regions (rectangles) in the PSD that can be detected by the script and exported as json data.

Can anyone suggest a good way in Photoshop to a) visually create this information in the PSD and b) the script that would write out this data?

Any help would be greatly appreciated - this would remove about 3 manual, error prone steps from our current process if we can solve it...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 968

Answers (1)

Ghoul Fool
Ghoul Fool

Reputation: 6967

If it's just rectangles that will hold the data for you then that's easy. You can just create a layer with a unique name, select the area that you need the data for, fill that with a single colour - say bright orange or something that will stand out. So now you have a layer with your region data. In your script get the layer by name

app.documents.getByName("Data_for_Region_1");

...and then you can then export that layer's data (co-ordinates - presumably) as a JSON file with layer bounds.

 var x = parseFloat(app.activeDocument;.activeLayer.bounds[0])
 var y = parseFloat(app.activeDocument;.activeLayer.bounds[1])
 var x1 = parseFloat(app.activeDocument;.activeLayer.bounds[2])
 var y1 = parseFloat(app.activeDocument;.activeLayer.bounds[3])

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 0

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