Add a Texture tab for defining frames

A new Texture tab next to Scene/Game/Graph shows a texture sheet and lets
frames be drawn on it: drag to create, move, resize via eight handles, edit
name and rect in the inspector, Delete to remove. Every change is a command,
so one gesture is one undo step. "Slice..." cuts a grid from columns and rows
with optional offset and spacing, previewing the resulting frame count and
cell size live.

Sprites pick a frame instead of the whole texture through the same `texture`
property: it now holds either a texture id or a frame id. Frame ids come from
the same generator and are document-wide unique, so one picker, one property
and one set of instance overrides cover both cases, and every sprite written
before this still means the same thing.

A Graphics fill ignores a Pixi sub-texture's frame and draws the whole image,
because it derives its uvs from the shape bounds and the inverted style
matrix. The cutout is therefore a matrix (`viewport/textureFill.ts`), which
keeps a sheet at a single GPU upload no matter how many of its frames are on
screen at once.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/core/commands/assetCommands.ts

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ export function buildAsset(type: AssetType, name: string, id = newId()): Asset {
   const base = { id, name, props: defaultsFor(type) };
   switch (type) {
     case 'texture':
-      return { ...base, type: 'texture', file: '', width: 0, height: 0 };
+      return buildTextureAsset(name, { file: '', width: 0, height: 0 }, id);
     case 'scene':
       return { ...base, type: 'scene', objects: [] };
     case 'camera':
@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ export interface TextureImage {
   height: number;
 }
 
+/**
+ * A texture asset for a stored image, without frames – slicing it is a separate, undoable
+ * edit. Kept apart from `buildAsset` so callers that need a `TextureAsset` get one, instead
+ * of the `Asset` union they would have to narrow again.
+ */
+export function buildTextureAsset(name: string, image: TextureImage, id = newId()): TextureAsset {
+  return { id, name, props: defaultsFor('texture'), type: 'texture', ...image, frames: [] };
+}
+
 /**
  * Adds a texture asset for an image that is already stored on the server. Uploading is I/O and
  * therefore happens before the command: this one only records the result, so undo and redo of
@@ -80,7 +89,7 @@ export class CreateTextureCommand implements Command {
   readonly asset: TextureAsset;
 
   constructor(name: string, image: TextureImage) {
-    this.asset = { ...buildAsset('texture', name), type: 'texture', ...image };
+    this.asset = buildTextureAsset(name, image);
     this.label = `Import texture "${name}"`;
   }
 

src/core/commands/frameCommands.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,217 @@
+/**
+ * Undoable edits of a texture's frames – the named rectangles a sprite sheet is cut into
+ * (see `model/texture.ts`). Every rectangle that enters the model passes `normalizeFrameRect`
+ * here rather than at the call site: frames come from dragging in a zoomed view, so callers
+ * produce fractional and inverted rectangles as a matter of course.
+ */
+import { newId } from '../ids';
+import type { TextureAsset, TextureFrame } from '../model/Asset';
+import type { Project } from '../model/Project';
+import {
+  frameRect,
+  type FrameRect,
+  nextFrameNames,
+  normalizeFrameRect,
+  setFrameRect,
+  sliceFrames,
+  type SliceOptions,
+  uniqueFrameName,
+} from '../model/texture';
+import { type Removed, removeById, removeFirst, restoreAt } from '../util/list';
+import { type Command, CommandError } from './Command';
+import { requireAsset } from './require';
+
+/** The name new frames are derived from when the caller has nothing better to offer. */
+const DEFAULT_NAME = 'Frame';
+
+/** The asset as a texture, rejecting both "no such asset" and "that one is not a picture". */
+function requireTexture(project: Project, assetId: string): TextureAsset {
+  const asset = requireAsset(project, assetId);
+  if (asset.type !== 'texture') throw new CommandError(`${asset.name} is not a texture`);
+  return asset;
+}
+
+function requireFrame(asset: TextureAsset, frameId: string): TextureFrame {
+  const frame = asset.frames.find((f) => f.id === frameId);
+  if (!frame) throw new CommandError(`Frame ${frameId} not found in ${asset.name}`);
+  return frame;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Adds one frame to a texture. The id is known before execution, which is what lets the caller
+ * select the new frame right after executing – the same trick `PlaceAssetCommand` uses.
+ */
+export class AddFrameCommand implements Command {
+  readonly label = 'Add frame';
+  readonly frameId = newId();
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly assetId: string,
+    private readonly rect: FrameRect,
+    private readonly name = DEFAULT_NAME,
+  ) {}
+
+  execute(project: Project): void {
+    const asset = requireTexture(project, this.assetId);
+    asset.frames.push({
+      id: this.frameId,
+      // Resolved on every execution rather than in the constructor: a redo has to fit the
+      // names that exist when it runs, not the ones that existed when the command was built.
+      name: uniqueFrameName(asset, this.name),
+      ...normalizeFrameRect(this.rect, asset.width, asset.height),
+    });
+  }
+
+  undo(project: Project): void {
+    const asset = requireTexture(project, this.assetId);
+    asset.frames = removeById(asset.frames, this.frameId);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Moves and resizes a frame – one command per drag, not one per pointer move.
+ *
+ * A drag previews itself by writing into the frame directly; on release the caller puts the
+ * starting rectangle back and executes this once, exactly as `SceneViewport` does for
+ * `MoveSceneObjectCommand`. The rectangle to revert to is therefore read from the model at
+ * execution time: a caller that forgets to undo its preview would record the preview as the
+ * state to return to, and the whole drag would collapse into one undo step of nothing.
+ */
+export class SetFrameRectCommand implements Command {
+  readonly label = 'Move frame';
+  private previous: FrameRect = { x: 0, y: 0, w: 0, h: 0 };
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly assetId: string,
+    private readonly frameId: string,
+    private readonly rect: FrameRect,
+  ) {}
+
+  execute(project: Project): void {
+    const asset = requireTexture(project, this.assetId);
+    const frame = requireFrame(asset, this.frameId);
+    this.previous = frameRect(frame);
+    setFrameRect(frame, normalizeFrameRect(this.rect, asset.width, asset.height));
+  }
+
+  undo(project: Project): void {
+    const asset = requireTexture(project, this.assetId);
+    // Restored verbatim instead of normalized again: undo owes the user the state that was
+    // there, even if it came out of a document written before the image was measured.
+    setFrameRect(requireFrame(asset, this.frameId), this.previous);
+  }
+}
+
+/** Renames a frame. The name is what the sprite's texture picker shows, so it may not be blank. */
+export class RenameFrameCommand implements Command {
+  readonly label = 'Rename frame';
+  private previous = '';
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly assetId: string,
+    private readonly frameId: string,
+    private readonly name: string,
+  ) {}
+
+  execute(project: Project): void {
+    const asset = requireTexture(project, this.assetId);
+    const frame = requireFrame(asset, this.frameId);
+    const name = this.name.trim();
+    if (!name) throw new CommandError('A frame needs a name');
+    this.previous = frame.name;
+    frame.name = uniqueFrameName(asset, name, this.frameId);
+  }
+
+  undo(project: Project): void {
+    requireFrame(requireTexture(project, this.assetId), this.frameId).name = this.previous;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Removes a frame, putting it back at its former index on undo – the frame order is the order
+ * of the sheet, so appending it again would silently reshuffle the picture.
+ *
+ * Sprites wearing the frame are left pointing at it. A dangling reference reads as "no
+ * picture" everywhere (`resolveTexture`) and comes back by itself when this is undone, which
+ * clearing the references could not offer.
+ */
+export class RemoveFrameCommand implements Command {
+  readonly label = 'Remove frame';
+  private removed?: Removed<TextureFrame>;
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly assetId: string,
+    private readonly frameId: string,
+  ) {}
+
+  execute(project: Project): void {
+    const asset = requireTexture(project, this.assetId);
+    const removed = removeFirst(asset.frames, (f) => f.id === this.frameId);
+    if (!removed) throw new CommandError(`Frame ${this.frameId} not found in ${asset.name}`);
+    this.removed = removed;
+  }
+
+  undo(project: Project): void {
+    if (!this.removed) return;
+    restoreAt(requireTexture(project, this.assetId).frames, [this.removed]);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Cuts a sheet into a grid of frames (see `sliceFrames`), either adding them to the frames
+ * already there or replacing those.
+ *
+ * A grid that yields nothing is rejected rather than applied as an empty change: it means the
+ * image has not been measured yet or the cells came out smaller than a pixel, and both look to
+ * the user like the Slice button doing nothing at all.
+ */
+export class SliceFramesCommand implements Command {
+  readonly label: string;
+  private created: TextureFrame[] = [];
+  private previous: TextureFrame[] = [];
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly assetId: string,
+    private readonly options: SliceOptions,
+    private readonly replace: boolean,
+  ) {
+    this.label = replace ? 'Re-slice frames' : 'Slice frames';
+  }
+
+  execute(project: Project): void {
+    const asset = requireTexture(project, this.assetId);
+    if (asset.width <= 0 || asset.height <= 0)
+      throw new CommandError(`The size of ${asset.name} is not known, so it cannot be sliced`);
+    const rects = sliceFrames(asset.width, asset.height, this.options);
+    if (rects.length === 0)
+      throw new CommandError(`${this.options.columns}×${this.options.rows} does not fit ${asset.name}`);
+
+    this.previous = [...asset.frames];
+    if (this.replace) asset.frames = [];
+    // A redo reuses the frames the first run created: while the command sat on the undo stack
+    // a sprite may have been pointed at one of them, and a fresh id would break that.
+    if (this.created.length === 0) this.created = this.buildFrames(asset, rects);
+    else asset.frames.push(...this.created);
+  }
+
+  undo(project: Project): void {
+    requireTexture(project, this.assetId).frames = this.previous;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Frames named after their position in the sheet ("Frame 1" is the first cell in reading
+   * order). The whole run of names is asked for at once, so that keeping the existing frames
+   * shifts the numbering past them instead of suffixing a number onto a number.
+   */
+  private buildFrames(asset: TextureAsset, rects: readonly FrameRect[]): TextureFrame[] {
+    const names = nextFrameNames(asset, rects.length, DEFAULT_NAME);
+    const created = rects.map((rect, index) => ({
+      id: newId(),
+      name: names[index]!,
+      // A no-op for a whole-pixel grid, but the offsets come from a form and may be anything.
+      ...normalizeFrameRect(rect, asset.width, asset.height),
+    }));
+    asset.frames.push(...created);
+    return created;
+  }
+}

src/core/model/Asset.ts

@@ -65,6 +65,22 @@ export interface ContainerAsset extends AssetBase {
   objects: SceneObject[];
 }
 
+/**
+ * One named rectangle of a texture, in image pixels – a frame of a sprite sheet.
+ *
+ * Its `id` is drawn from the same generator as asset ids and is unique across the document,
+ * which is what lets a sprite's `texture` property name either a whole texture or one frame
+ * of it (see `model/texture.ts`).
+ */
+export interface TextureFrame {
+  id: string;
+  name: string;
+  x: number;
+  y: number;
+  w: number;
+  h: number;
+}
+
 /**
  * An uploaded image. `file` names it in `data/textures/` and is content-addressed
  * (`{sha256}.{ext}`), so the same picture uploaded twice is one file and a stored file can be
@@ -75,15 +91,21 @@ export interface ContainerAsset extends AssetBase {
  * is the reference to it – sprites carry `texture` (see PropertySchema), which is how
  * instance overrides, "Apply to container" and `Set property` work on it for free.
  *
+ * `frames` cuts the picture into named rectangles (the Texture tab draws them); a texture
+ * with no frames is simply used whole, which is what every single-image texture wants and
+ * what every document written before frames existed already says.
+ *
  * `width`/`height` are the pixel size as uploaded, kept so a sprite can be sized to its
- * picture without waiting for the image to load. An empty `file` means the upload failed or
- * has not happened yet; such a texture draws as nothing.
+ * picture without waiting for the image to load – and so frames can be validated and sliced
+ * before it arrives. An empty `file` means the upload failed or has not happened yet; such a
+ * texture draws as nothing.
  */
 export interface TextureAsset extends AssetBase {
   type: 'texture';
   file: string;
   width: number;
   height: number;
+  frames: TextureFrame[];
 }
 
 export type Asset =

src/core/model/Project.ts

@@ -71,32 +71,40 @@ export type PropertyUsage =
   | { on: 'object'; holder: ObjectHolder; object: SceneObject; key: string };
 
 /**
- * Every property that references `assetId`, on assets and on the overrides of placed objects.
+ * Every property that references one of `ids`, on assets and on the overrides of placed
+ * objects.
  *
  * This is the other half of "where is this asset used": `findUsages` finds assets that were
  * *placed*, which is meaningless for a texture – a texture is never placed, it is worn by
  * sprites through their `texture` property. Deleting one therefore has to count both, or it
  * reports "0 uses" for a picture that ten sprites are showing.
  *
- * A reference is deliberately left dangling rather than cleared when its asset goes: a
+ * Several ids rather than one because a texture is referenced by more than its own id: every
+ * frame cut from it is a reference to the same picture (see `textureRefIds`). Deleting the
+ * texture has to count the sprites wearing a frame of it too, or it under-reports exactly the
+ * sheets that were sliced – the ones with the most users.
+ *
+ * A reference is deliberately left dangling rather than cleared when its target goes: a
  * dangling one resolves to "no picture" everywhere it is read, and it comes back by itself
  * when the delete is undone.
  */
-export function findPropertyUsages(project: Project, assetId: string): PropertyUsage[] {
-  if (!assetId) return [];
+export function findPropertyUsages(project: Project, ids: string | readonly string[]): PropertyUsage[] {
+  const wanted = new Set((typeof ids === 'string' ? [ids] : ids).filter(Boolean));
+  if (wanted.size === 0) return [];
   const result: PropertyUsage[] = [];
-  const assetKeys = new Map<string, string[]>();
+  const refKeys = new Map<string, string[]>();
+  const matches = (value: unknown): boolean => typeof value === 'string' && wanted.has(value);
   for (const asset of project.assets) {
     const keys = schemaForAsset(asset)
-      .filter((def) => def.kind === 'asset')
+      .filter((def) => def.kind === 'asset' || def.kind === 'texture')
       .map((def) => def.key);
-    assetKeys.set(asset.id, keys);
-    for (const key of keys) if (asset.props[key] === assetId) result.push({ on: 'asset', asset, key });
+    refKeys.set(asset.id, keys);
+    for (const key of keys) if (matches(asset.props[key])) result.push({ on: 'asset', asset, key });
   }
   for (const holder of objectHolders(project)) {
     for (const object of holder.objects) {
-      for (const key of assetKeys.get(object.assetId) ?? [])
-        if (object.overrides[key] === assetId) result.push({ on: 'object', holder, object, key });
+      for (const key of refKeys.get(object.assetId) ?? [])
+        if (matches(object.overrides[key])) result.push({ on: 'object', holder, object, key });
     }
   }
   return result;

src/core/model/texture.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import type { TextureAsset, TextureFrame } from './Asset';
 import type { PropertyBag } from './Properties';
 import { findAsset, type Project } from './Project';
 
@@ -12,23 +13,221 @@ export function isTextureFile(name: string): boolean {
   return FILE_PATTERN.test(name);
 }
 
-/** A picture ready to be drawn: which file, and whether to smooth it when scaled. */
+/** A rectangle in image pixels: the part of a texture a frame cuts out. */
+export interface FrameRect {
+  x: number;
+  y: number;
+  w: number;
+  h: number;
+}
+
+/** Smallest frame that is still a picture rather than a slip of the mouse. */
+export const MIN_FRAME_SIZE = 1;
+
+/**
+ * A picture ready to be drawn: which file, whether to smooth it when scaled, and which part
+ * of it. `rect` is null for the whole image – not a rectangle covering everything, because
+ * the renderer can then skip the texture matrix entirely (Pixi fits an unmatrixed fill to the
+ * shape by itself) and because "the whole picture" survives the image being re-uploaded at a
+ * different size.
+ */
 export interface TextureRef {
   file: string;
   /** False for pixel art, where interpolation is the difference between crisp and mush. */
   smooth: boolean;
+  /** Sub-rectangle in image pixels, or null for the whole image. */
+  rect: FrameRect | null;
+  /** Size of the whole image in pixels – the reference frame `rect` is expressed in. */
+  sourceWidth: number;
+  sourceHeight: number;
+}
+
+/** A texture asset together with one of its frames. */
+export interface FrameRef {
+  asset: TextureAsset;
+  frame: TextureFrame;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The frame with that id, wherever in the project it lives.
+ *
+ * Frame ids come from the same generator as asset ids and are unique across the document,
+ * which is what lets a sprite's `texture` property hold either kind: an asset id means the
+ * whole picture, a frame id means one cut-out of it. One property, one picker, and every
+ * sprite written before frames existed keeps meaning exactly what it meant.
+ */
+export function findFrame(project: Project, frameId: string): FrameRef | null {
+  if (!frameId) return null;
+  for (const asset of project.assets) {
+    if (asset.type !== 'texture') continue;
+    const frame = asset.frames.find((f) => f.id === frameId);
+    if (frame) return { asset, frame };
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/** Every id that means "this picture": the texture asset itself and each of its frames. */
+export function textureRefIds(asset: TextureAsset): string[] {
+  return [asset.id, ...asset.frames.map((f) => f.id)];
 }
 
 /**
  * The picture a bag of properties points at, or null when it points at nothing usable –
- * no reference, a dangling one (the texture was deleted), or one whose upload never
- * finished. Callers draw their plain colour in that case, which is what a sprite looked
- * like before textures existed.
+ * no reference, a dangling one (the texture or the frame was deleted), or one whose upload
+ * never finished. Callers draw their plain colour in that case, which is what a sprite
+ * looked like before textures existed.
  */
 export function resolveTexture(project: Project, props: PropertyBag): TextureRef | null {
   const id = String(props.texture ?? '');
   if (!id) return null;
   const asset = findAsset(project, id);
-  if (asset?.type !== 'texture' || !isTextureFile(asset.file)) return null;
-  return { file: asset.file, smooth: String(asset.props.filter ?? 'linear') !== 'nearest' };
+  if (asset) return asset.type === 'texture' ? refFor(asset, null) : null;
+  const found = findFrame(project, id);
+  return found ? refFor(found.asset, found.frame) : null;
+}
+
+function refFor(asset: TextureAsset, frame: TextureFrame | null): TextureRef | null {
+  if (!isTextureFile(asset.file)) return null;
+  return {
+    file: asset.file,
+    smooth: String(asset.props.filter ?? 'linear') !== 'nearest',
+    rect: frame ? { x: frame.x, y: frame.y, w: frame.w, h: frame.h } : null,
+    sourceWidth: asset.width,
+    sourceHeight: asset.height,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * A rectangle rounded to whole pixels and forced inside the image.
+ *
+ * Frames are pixel coordinates into a bitmap, so a fractional one has no meaning – it would
+ * sample half of a neighbouring pixel along every edge, which on a sprite sheet is the
+ * classic seam of foreign colour. Dragging produces fractions constantly (the view is
+ * zoomed), so this is applied on the way into the model rather than trusted from callers.
+ */
+export function normalizeFrameRect(rect: FrameRect, imageWidth: number, imageHeight: number): FrameRect {
+  // An image of unknown size (upload still running) cannot constrain anything; only round.
+  const limitX = imageWidth > 0 ? imageWidth : Infinity;
+  const limitY = imageHeight > 0 ? imageHeight : Infinity;
+  const x0 = clampInt(Math.min(rect.x, rect.x + rect.w), 0, limitX - MIN_FRAME_SIZE);
+  const y0 = clampInt(Math.min(rect.y, rect.y + rect.h), 0, limitY - MIN_FRAME_SIZE);
+  const x1 = clampInt(Math.max(rect.x, rect.x + rect.w), x0 + MIN_FRAME_SIZE, limitX);
+  const y1 = clampInt(Math.max(rect.y, rect.y + rect.h), y0 + MIN_FRAME_SIZE, limitY);
+  return { x: x0, y: y0, w: x1 - x0, h: y1 - y0 };
+}
+
+function clampInt(value: number, min: number, max: number): number {
+  const n = Math.round(Number.isFinite(value) ? value : 0);
+  return Math.max(min, Math.min(max, n));
+}
+
+/** How a sheet is cut into a regular grid – the shape of nearly every sprite sheet. */
+export interface SliceOptions {
+  columns: number;
+  rows: number;
+  /** Pixels skipped at the left/top edge of the sheet before the first cell. */
+  offsetX: number;
+  offsetY: number;
+  /** Pixels between neighbouring cells (sheets exported with padding). */
+  spacingX: number;
+  spacingY: number;
+}
+
+export const DEFAULT_SLICE: SliceOptions = {
+  columns: 4,
+  rows: 4,
+  offsetX: 0,
+  offsetY: 0,
+  spacingX: 0,
+  spacingY: 0,
+};
+
+/**
+ * The rectangles a grid cuts a sheet into, in reading order (left to right, top to bottom) –
+ * which is the order sprite sheets are authored in and therefore the order an animation will
+ * want them.
+ *
+ * Cell size is derived from the image rather than asked for: everyone knows how many tiles
+ * their sheet has, almost nobody knows the pixel size off-hand, and deriving it cannot
+ * disagree with the picture. A cell that would reach past the image is dropped instead of
+ * clipped – a clipped one looks like a frame and is not one.
+ */
+export function sliceFrames(imageWidth: number, imageHeight: number, options: SliceOptions): FrameRect[] {
+  const columns = Math.floor(options.columns);
+  const rows = Math.floor(options.rows);
+  // NaN has to be rejected explicitly: every comparison against it is false, so a NaN column
+  // count would pass `columns < 1` and only produce nothing by accident of the loop condition.
+  if (!Number.isFinite(columns) || !Number.isFinite(rows)) return [];
+  if (!Object.values(options).every((value) => Number.isFinite(value))) return [];
+  if (columns < 1 || rows < 1 || imageWidth <= 0 || imageHeight <= 0) return [];
+  const cellW = Math.floor((imageWidth - options.offsetX - options.spacingX * (columns - 1)) / columns);
+  const cellH = Math.floor((imageHeight - options.offsetY - options.spacingY * (rows - 1)) / rows);
+  if (cellW < MIN_FRAME_SIZE || cellH < MIN_FRAME_SIZE) return [];
+  const rects: FrameRect[] = [];
+  for (let row = 0; row < rows; row++) {
+    for (let column = 0; column < columns; column++) {
+      const x = options.offsetX + column * (cellW + options.spacingX);
+      const y = options.offsetY + row * (cellH + options.spacingY);
+      if (x + cellW > imageWidth || y + cellH > imageHeight) continue;
+      rects.push({ x, y, w: cellW, h: cellH });
+    }
+  }
+  return rects;
+}
+
+/** The rectangle part of a frame, and the way to write one back – the only glue between the two. */
+export function frameRect(frame: TextureFrame): FrameRect {
+  return { x: frame.x, y: frame.y, w: frame.w, h: frame.h };
+}
+
+export function setFrameRect(frame: TextureFrame, rect: FrameRect): void {
+  frame.x = rect.x;
+  frame.y = rect.y;
+  frame.w = rect.w;
+  frame.h = rect.h;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A frame name that is free within its texture: `base`, else "base 2", "base 3" … – the same
+ * shape `nextAssetName` produces, because a name the user reads should not be numbered by two
+ * conventions in one document.
+ *
+ * Names matter more here than they look: they are what the sprite's picker shows, so two
+ * frames called "idle" would be one choice repeated rather than two.
+ */
+export function uniqueFrameName(asset: TextureAsset, base: string, ignoreId = ''): string {
+  const taken = takenFrameNames(asset, ignoreId);
+  const stem = base || 'Frame';
+  return taken.has(stem) ? firstFreeName(taken, stem, 2) : stem;
+}
+
+/**
+ * `count` free names numbered from 1 – what slicing a sheet wants, where the number is the
+ * cell's position and "Frame 1" next to "Frame 2" is the whole point.
+ *
+ * Numbers already taken are skipped rather than suffixed again: re-slicing a sheet that keeps
+ * its old frames must not produce "Frame 2 1".
+ */
+export function nextFrameNames(asset: TextureAsset, count: number, base = 'Frame'): string[] {
+  const taken = takenFrameNames(asset);
+  const names: string[] = [];
+  let n = 1;
+  for (let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+    const name = firstFreeName(taken, base, n);
+    taken.add(name);
+    names.push(name);
+    n = Number(name.slice(base.length + 1)) + 1;
+  }
+  return names;
+}
+
+function takenFrameNames(asset: TextureAsset, ignoreId = ''): Set<string> {
+  return new Set(asset.frames.filter((f) => f.id !== ignoreId).map((f) => f.name));
+}
+
+function firstFreeName(taken: ReadonlySet<string>, base: string, from: number): string {
+  for (let i = from; ; i++) {
+    const candidate = `${base} ${i}`;
+    if (!taken.has(candidate)) return candidate;
+  }
 }

src/core/properties/PropertySchema.ts

@@ -23,7 +23,16 @@ export type PropertyDef =
    * The id is not validated on load – a reference can dangle, exactly like a graph node's
    * asset parameter, and the places that read one have to cope with that.
    */
-  | { key: string; label: string; kind: 'asset'; default: string; assetTypes?: readonly AssetType[] };
+  | { key: string; label: string; kind: 'asset'; default: string; assetTypes?: readonly AssetType[] }
+  /**
+   * A picture: the id of a texture asset (the whole image) or of one of its frames. Its own
+   * kind rather than an `asset` reference with `assetTypes: ['texture']`, because a frame is
+   * not an asset – it is a rectangle inside one, and the picker has to offer both.
+   *
+   * Like an asset reference the id is not validated on load and may dangle; everything that
+   * reads one falls back to drawing no picture.
+   */
+  | { key: string; label: string; kind: 'texture'; default: string };
 
 export type PropertySchema = readonly PropertyDef[];
 
@@ -69,7 +78,7 @@ const ASSET_SCHEMAS: Record<AssetType, PropertySchema> = {
      * white coin picture becomes ten differently coloured coins, per instance, for free.
      */
     { key: 'color', label: 'Color', kind: 'color', default: 0xffffff },
-    { key: 'texture', label: 'Texture', kind: 'asset', default: '', assetTypes: ['texture'] },
+    { key: 'texture', label: 'Texture', kind: 'texture', default: '' },
   ],
   // The picture itself is intrinsic data on the asset (see TextureAsset), not a property:
   // only how it is sampled is worth deciding, and that decision is the whole schema.
@@ -190,11 +199,12 @@ export function coerceValue(def: PropertyDef, value: PropertyValue): PropertyVal
     }
     case 'boolean':
       return Boolean(value);
-    // An asset reference is an id like the other two are plain strings; whether it still
-    // resolves is not decidable from a single property definition.
+    // An asset or texture reference is an id like the other two are plain strings; whether it
+    // still resolves is not decidable from a single property definition.
     case 'text':
     case 'key':
     case 'asset':
+    case 'texture':
       return String(value);
     case 'enum': {
       const s = String(value);

src/core/properties/textureRef.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+import type { TextureAsset, TextureFrame } from '../model/Asset';
+import { findAsset, type Project } from '../model/Project';
+import { findFrame } from '../model/texture';
+
+/** Shown for a `texture` property that references nothing. */
+export const NO_TEXTURE_LABEL = 'None';
+
+/** Separates a texture's name from a frame's name wherever the two are shown together. */
+const FRAME_SEPARATOR = ' / ';
+
+/** One thing a sprite's `texture` property can be set to. */
+export interface TextureChoice {
+  /** Asset id for the whole picture, frame id for one cut-out of it. */
+  id: string;
+  label: string;
+  /** The texture this choice belongs to – frames of one sheet stay together in the menu. */
+  asset: TextureAsset;
+  /** Null for the whole-picture entry. */
+  frame: TextureFrame | null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * How a texture reference reads wherever it is displayed: the texture's name for a whole
+ * picture, "Sheet / Frame" for a frame, "None" for the empty id, and `<id>?` when the id no
+ * longer resolves.
+ *
+ * A dangling reference keeps showing its id instead of falling back to "None": the id is the
+ * only trace left of what was meant, and blanking it would make a deleted frame look like a
+ * field that was never filled in. `project` may be null while a view has no project yet.
+ */
+export function textureRefLabel(project: Project | null, id: string): string {
+  if (id === '') return NO_TEXTURE_LABEL;
+  if (!project) return `${id}?`;
+  const asset = findAsset(project, id);
+  if (asset) return asset.type === 'texture' ? asset.name : `${id}?`;
+  const found = findFrame(project, id);
+  return found ? `${found.asset.name}${FRAME_SEPARATOR}${found.frame.name}` : `${id}?`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Everything a sprite may wear, in menu order: each texture followed by its own frames.
+ *
+ * The whole picture stays on offer next to the frames rather than being replaced by them.
+ * A texture that was never sliced has no frames at all, and a sheet's full image is
+ * occasionally what you want (a background, a check of the sheet itself) – forcing a frame
+ * would mean slicing every single-image texture into one pointless frame.
+ *
+ * Textures are sorted by name so the order does not depend on upload time; frames keep the
+ * order they were created in, which for a sliced sheet is reading order and therefore the
+ * order the animation runs in.
+ */
+export function textureRefChoices(project: Project): TextureChoice[] {
+  const textures = project.assets
+    .filter((a): a is TextureAsset => a.type === 'texture')
+    .sort((a, b) => a.name.localeCompare(b.name));
+  const choices: TextureChoice[] = [];
+  for (const asset of textures) {
+    choices.push({ id: asset.id, label: asset.name, asset, frame: null });
+    for (const frame of asset.frames)
+      choices.push({
+        id: frame.id,
+        label: `${asset.name}${FRAME_SEPARATOR}${frame.name}`,
+        asset,
+        frame,
+      });
+  }
+  return choices;
+}

src/core/store/serialize.ts

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 // The graph package index registers the built-in nodes; unknown node types are dropped below.
 import { createEmptyGraph, type Graph, type GraphEdge, type GraphNode, nodeDef } from '../graph';
-import type { Asset } from '../model/Asset';
+import type { Asset, TextureFrame } from '../model/Asset';
 import { isAssetType } from '../model/AssetTypes';
 import type { PropertyBag, PropertyValue } from '../model/Properties';
 import { PROJECT_FORMAT_VERSION, type Project } from '../model/Project';
 import type { SceneObject } from '../model/SceneObject';
-import { isTextureFile } from '../model/texture';
+import { isTextureFile, normalizeFrameRect } from '../model/texture';
 import { hasParentCycle } from '../model/walk';
 import {
   coerceValue,
@@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ export function deserializeProject(raw: unknown, fallbackId = ''): Project {
     }
   }
 
-  // Pass 2: build assets.
+  // Pass 2: build assets. Frame ids live in the same reference space as asset ids (a sprite's
+  // `texture` may name either), so they are handed the ids already spoken for.
   const assets: Asset[] = [];
+  const takenIds = new Set(schemas.keys());
   for (const a of rawAssets) {
     const id = typeof a.id === 'string' ? a.id : '';
     const schema = schemas.get(id);
@@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ export function deserializeProject(raw: unknown, fallbackId = ''): Project {
         graph: normalizeGraph(a.graph),
       });
     } else if (type === 'texture') {
-      assets.push({ id, type, name, props, ...normalizeTexture(a) });
+      assets.push({ id, type, name, props, ...normalizeTexture(a, takenIds) });
     } else {
       assets.push({ id, type, name, props });
     }
@@ -189,11 +191,31 @@ function normalizeGraph(raw: unknown): Graph {
  * is dropped rather than kept: it can only have been hand-written, and a request built from it
  * would 404. Such a texture loads as "no picture", which draws as the sprite's plain colour.
  */
-function normalizeTexture(raw: Record<string, unknown>): { file: string; width: number; height: number } {
+function normalizeTexture(
+  raw: Record<string, unknown>,
+  takenIds: Set<string>,
+): { file: string; width: number; height: number; frames: TextureFrame[] } {
   const file = typeof raw.file === 'string' && isTextureFile(raw.file) ? raw.file : '';
   const size = (value: unknown): number =>
     typeof value === 'number' && Number.isFinite(value) && value > 0 ? Math.floor(value) : 0;
-  return { file, width: size(raw.width), height: size(raw.height) };
+  const width = size(raw.width);
+  const height = size(raw.height);
+  const frames: TextureFrame[] = [];
+  for (const item of Array.isArray(raw.frames) ? raw.frames : []) {
+    const f = asRecord(item);
+    const id = typeof f.id === 'string' ? f.id : '';
+    // A frame id shares the reference space with asset ids (a sprite may name either), so a
+    // duplicate would make one reference mean two pictures. Drop it rather than resolve it.
+    if (!id || takenIds.has(id)) continue;
+    takenIds.add(id);
+    const rect = normalizeFrameRect(
+      { x: toNumber(f.x), y: toNumber(f.y), w: toNumber(f.w), h: toNumber(f.h) },
+      width,
+      height,
+    );
+    frames.push({ id, name: typeof f.name === 'string' ? f.name : '', ...rect });
+  }
+  return { file, width, height, frames };
 }
 
 function normalizeBag(raw: unknown, schema: PropertySchema, sparse: boolean): PropertyBag {

src/editor/Editor.ts

@@ -14,9 +14,13 @@ import { type PlayHost, PlaySession, type WorldSnapshot } from './PlaySession';
 import { ProjectSession } from './ProjectSession';
 import { installShortcuts } from './shortcuts';
 import type { EditorState } from './state';
+import { TextureEditor } from './texture/TextureEditor';
 import { installTextureImport } from './textureImport';
 
-export type CentreTab = 'scene' | 'graph' | 'game';
+export type CentreTab = 'scene' | 'graph' | 'game' | 'texture';
+
+/** Tab strip order – also the one list `showTab` walks, so a new tab cannot be half-added. */
+const TAB_ORDER = ['scene', 'game', 'graph', 'texture'] as const;
 
 const MIN_LEFT_WIDTH = 160;
 const MAX_LEFT_WIDTH = 500;
@@ -34,6 +38,8 @@ export class Editor implements PlayHost {
   /** Game tab: the running world through its camera. */
   readonly gameView: GameViewport;
   readonly graphEditor: GraphEditor;
+  /** Texture tab: one sheet with its frames. */
+  readonly textureEditor: TextureEditor;
   readonly hierarchy: HierarchyPanel;
   tab: CentreTab = 'scene';
   /** Frame rate, refreshed twice a second; null until the first measurement. */
@@ -63,6 +69,7 @@ export class Editor implements PlayHost {
     this.viewport = new SceneViewport(state);
     this.gameView = new GameViewport(state);
     this.graphEditor = new GraphEditor(state);
+    this.textureEditor = new TextureEditor(state);
     this.hierarchy = new HierarchyPanel(state);
     this.inspector = new Inspector(state);
     this.play = new PlaySession(state, this);
@@ -89,7 +96,7 @@ export class Editor implements PlayHost {
     installTextureImport(app.canvas, { state, textures });
     this.leftColumn.add(this.hierarchy, 1);
 
-    // Centre: a tab strip (Scene | Game | Graph) above the scene view, the game view or the graph editor.
+    // Centre: a tab strip above the scene view, the game view, the graph editor or the sheet editor.
     this.centre = new VStack();
     const tabs = new HStack({ gap: 2, padding: 4, align: 'center' });
     tabs.minHeight = Theme.controlHeight + 8;
@@ -97,14 +104,21 @@ export class Editor implements PlayHost {
       scene: new Button('Scene', { variant: 'ghost', width: 90, onClick: () => this.showTab('scene') }),
       game: new Button('Game', { variant: 'ghost', width: 90, onClick: () => this.showTab('game') }),
       graph: new Button('Graph', { variant: 'ghost', width: 90, onClick: () => this.showTab('graph') }),
+      texture: new Button('Texture', {
+        variant: 'ghost',
+        width: 90,
+        onClick: () => this.showTab('texture'),
+      }),
     };
-    for (const tab of ['scene', 'game', 'graph'] as const) tabs.add(this.tabButtons[tab]);
+    for (const tab of TAB_ORDER) tabs.add(this.tabButtons[tab]);
     this.centre.add(tabs);
     this.centre.add(this.viewport, 1);
     this.centre.add(this.graphEditor, 1);
     this.centre.add(this.gameView, 1);
+    this.centre.add(this.textureEditor, 1);
     this.graphEditor.visible = false;
     this.gameView.visible = false;
+    this.textureEditor.visible = false;
     this.tabButtons.scene.setToggled(true);
 
     this.leftColumn.minWidth = this.leftWidth;
@@ -130,9 +144,13 @@ export class Editor implements PlayHost {
     attachAutosave(state, store);
     installShortcuts(state, { play: () => this.play.play(), stop: () => this.play.stop() });
     app.ticker.add((ticker) => this.tick(ticker.deltaMS / 1000));
-    // Selecting a graph node switches to the graph; selecting a behavior does not force it.
+    // Selecting a graph node switches to the graph, selecting a frame to the sheet: both are
+    // things that exist *only* in their tab, so a selection you could not see would be a lie.
+    // Selecting the behavior or the texture asset itself does not force anything.
     state.on('selection', () => {
-      if (state.selection?.kind === 'node' && this.tab !== 'graph') this.showTab('graph');
+      const kind = state.selection?.kind;
+      if (kind === 'node' && this.tab !== 'graph') this.showTab('graph');
+      if (kind === 'frame' && this.tab !== 'texture') this.showTab('texture');
     });
     // While playing, every edit (command, undo, scrub preview) is mirrored into the world at once.
     state.on('project', () => this.play.syncFromModel());
@@ -143,7 +161,8 @@ export class Editor implements PlayHost {
     this.viewport.visible = tab === 'scene';
     this.graphEditor.visible = tab === 'graph';
     this.gameView.visible = tab === 'game';
-    for (const [key, button] of Object.entries(this.tabButtons)) button.setToggled(key === tab);
+    this.textureEditor.visible = tab === 'texture';
+    for (const key of TAB_ORDER) this.tabButtons[key].setToggled(key === tab);
     this.centre.relayout();
     ui().focus.validate();
   }

src/editor/actions.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { AddColliderCommand } from '../core/commands/colliderCommands';
 import { CreateContainerCommand } from '../core/commands/containerCommands';
 import { RemoveSceneObjectsCommand } from '../core/commands/sceneObjectCommands';
 import { findAsset, findPropertyUsages, findUsages } from '../core/model/Project';
+import { textureRefIds } from '../core/model/texture';
 import { Dialog } from '../ui';
 import { type EditorState, objectSelection } from './state';
 
@@ -41,8 +42,10 @@ export function confirmDeleteAsset(state: EditorState, assetId: string): void {
   if (!asset) return;
   const usages = findUsages(state.project, assetId).length;
   // A texture is never placed – it is worn through a property – so counting placed instances
-  // would report "unused" for a picture a dozen sprites are showing.
-  const references = findPropertyUsages(state.project, assetId).length;
+  // would report "unused" for a picture a dozen sprites are showing. Its frames count as the
+  // texture itself: a sprite wearing one of them loses its picture just the same.
+  const ids = asset.type === 'texture' ? textureRefIds(asset) : assetId;
+  const references = findPropertyUsages(state.project, ids).length;
   const detail =
     asset.type === 'scene'
       ? `The scene and its ${asset.objects.length} object(s) are removed.`

src/editor/debugHook.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { type Application, type Container, Rectangle, Text } from 'pixi.js';
 import { ui, Widget } from '../ui';
-import type { Editor } from './Editor';
+import type { CentreTab, Editor } from './Editor';
 import type { EditorState } from './state';
 
 /**
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import type { EditorState } from './state';
  * visible text and to read editor state. Read-only access; harmless in production.
  */
 export function installDebugHook(app: Application, state: EditorState, editor: Editor): void {
-  const { viewport, gameView, graphEditor, hierarchy } = editor;
+  const { viewport, gameView, graphEditor, textureEditor, hierarchy } = editor;
   const centreOf = (widget: { getGlobalPosition(): { x: number; y: number }; w: number; h: number }) => {
     const p = widget.getGlobalPosition();
     return { x: p.x + widget.w / 2, y: p.y + widget.h / 2 };
@@ -81,6 +81,15 @@ export function installDebugHook(app: Application, state: EditorState, editor: E
       nodeAt: (nodeId: string) => graphEditor.nodeGlobal(nodeId),
       center: () => centreOf(graphEditor),
     },
+    texture: {
+      current: () => textureEditor.currentAssetId,
+      /**
+       * Where an image pixel of the shown sheet sits on screen. Frames are dragged in image
+       * coordinates, so without this a check could only drag somewhere and hope – it could not
+       * aim at a known part of the picture and then assert which part came out.
+       */
+      pointAt: (x: number, y: number) => textureEditor.imageToScreen(x, y),
+    },
     world: () => editor.worldSnapshot(),
     /** Rows the hierarchy shows – collapsed subtrees are not in here. */
     hierarchyOrder: () => hierarchy.rowOrder(),
@@ -103,6 +112,6 @@ export function installDebugHook(app: Application, state: EditorState, editor: E
     },
     fps: () => editor.fps,
     tab: () => editor.tab,
-    showTab: (tab: 'scene' | 'graph' | 'game') => editor.showTab(tab),
+    showTab: (tab: CentreTab) => editor.showTab(tab),
   };
 }

src/editor/inspector/Inspector.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import type { Container } from 'pixi.js';
 import { Label, Panel, ScrollContainer, Theme, ui, VStack } from '../../ui';
 import { type EditorState, sameSelection, type Selection } from '../state';
 import { assetSignature, buildAssetSection, refreshAssetSection } from './assetSection';
+import { buildFrameSection, frameSignature, refreshFrameSection } from './frameSection';
 import type { InspectorHost } from './host';
 import { buildNodeSection, nodeSignature, refreshNodeSection } from './nodeSection';
 import {
@@ -13,7 +14,8 @@ import {
 
 /**
  * Shows the properties of the current selection. The rows are generated from the
- * PropertySchema by one section per selection kind (asset, scene object, graph node); the
+ * PropertySchema by one section per selection kind (asset, scene object, graph node, texture
+ * frame); the
  * panel only decides when a section has to be rebuilt and when its values merely refresh.
  */
 export class Inspector extends Panel {
@@ -70,6 +72,7 @@ export class Inspector extends Panel {
     if (!s) this.host.body.add(new Label('Select an asset, a scene object or a node.', { style: 'muted' }));
     else if (s.kind === 'asset') buildAssetSection(this.host, s.assetId);
     else if (s.kind === 'node') buildNodeSection(this.host, s.assetId, s.nodeId);
+    else if (s.kind === 'frame') buildFrameSection(this.host, s.assetId, s.frameId);
     else if (s.objectIds.length > 1) buildObjectsSection(this.host, s.sceneId, s.objectIds);
     else buildObjectSection(this.host, s.sceneId, s.objectId);
     this.scroll.setContent(this.host.body);
@@ -80,6 +83,7 @@ export class Inspector extends Panel {
     if (!s) return '';
     if (s.kind === 'asset') return assetSignature(this.state.project, s.assetId);
     if (s.kind === 'node') return nodeSignature(this.state.project, s.assetId, s.nodeId);
+    if (s.kind === 'frame') return frameSignature(this.state.project, s.assetId, s.frameId);
     return objectSignature(this.state.project, s.sceneId, s.objectIds, s.objectId);
   }
 
@@ -96,7 +100,9 @@ export class Inspector extends Panel {
         ? refreshAssetSection(this.host, s.assetId)
         : s.kind === 'node'
           ? refreshNodeSection(this.host, s.assetId, s.nodeId)
-          : s.objectIds.length > 1 || refreshObjectSection(this.host, s.sceneId, s.objectId);
+          : s.kind === 'frame'
+            ? refreshFrameSection(this.host, s.assetId, s.frameId)
+            : s.objectIds.length > 1 || refreshObjectSection(this.host, s.sceneId, s.objectId);
     if (!ok) this.rebuild();
   }
 }

src/editor/inspector/fieldFactory.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
   NO_ASSET_LABEL,
 } from '../../core/properties/assetRef';
 import type { PropertyDef } from '../../core/properties/PropertySchema';
+import { NO_TEXTURE_LABEL, textureRefChoices, textureRefLabel } from '../../core/properties/textureRef';
 import {
   Button,
   Checkbox,
@@ -228,6 +229,36 @@ export function createField(
         },
       };
     }
+    case 'texture': {
+      // The id is kept here for the same reason as in the asset case, and more urgently: a
+      // frame's label repeats its sheet's name, so several entries can read identically.
+      let current = String(value);
+      const button = new Dropdown(textureRefLabel(ctx.project(), current));
+      button.onClick = () => {
+        const mark = (id: string, text: string) => (id === current ? `● ${text}` : text);
+        const items: MenuItem[] = [
+          { label: mark('', NO_TEXTURE_LABEL), onSelect: () => handlers.onChange('') },
+          // Built on click, not once per row: textures are uploaded and frames are cut, renamed
+          // and sliced away while the inspector stands, and the picker has to show what exists now.
+          ...textureRefChoices(ctx.project()).map((choice) => ({
+            label: mark(choice.id, choice.label),
+            onSelect: () => handlers.onChange(choice.id),
+          })),
+        ];
+        // Searchable: one sliced sheet alone contributes an entry per frame. The entries read
+        // "Sheet / Frame", so the sheet's own name gathers its frames into one block of the
+        // list and typing either name finds them.
+        new Menu(items, { searchable: true }).openBelow(button);
+      };
+      return {
+        widget: button,
+        grow: true,
+        setValue: (v) => {
+          current = String(v);
+          button.setText(textureRefLabel(ctx.project(), current));
+        },
+      };
+    }
   }
 }
 

src/editor/inspector/frameSection.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+import {
+  RemoveFrameCommand,
+  RenameFrameCommand,
+  SetFrameRectCommand,
+} from '../../core/commands/frameCommands';
+import type { TextureAsset, TextureFrame } from '../../core/model/Asset';
+import { findAsset, type Project } from '../../core/model/Project';
+import { frameRect, type FrameRect, normalizeFrameRect, setFrameRect } from '../../core/model/texture';
+import { Button, TextField } from '../../ui';
+import { createFieldRow, type FieldHandlers, labelledRow } from './fieldFactory';
+import { addGap, addNote, addTitle, type InspectorHost } from './host';
+import { previewingHandlers } from './previewHandlers';
+
+/** The components of the rectangle, in the order they are shown. */
+const RECT_COMPONENTS = [
+  { key: 'x', label: 'X' },
+  { key: 'y', label: 'Y' },
+  { key: 'w', label: 'Width' },
+  { key: 'h', label: 'Height' },
+] as const;
+
+/**
+ * Structure-defining facts of a frame selection: none. A frame is a name and four numbers
+ * whatever texture it was cut from, so the rows never differ – only the frame disappearing
+ * can force a rebuild, and that is what `refreshFrameSection` reports.
+ */
+export function frameSignature(project: Project, assetId: string, frameId: string): string {
+  return currentFrame(project, assetId, frameId) ? 'frame' : 'missing';
+}
+
+/** Name, the rectangle it cuts out of its texture, and the way to delete it. */
+export function buildFrameSection(host: InspectorHost, assetId: string, frameId: string): void {
+  const asset = currentTexture(host.state.project, assetId);
+  const frame = asset?.frames.find((f) => f.id === frameId);
+  if (!asset || !frame) return;
+
+  addTitle(host, 'TEXTURE FRAME');
+  host.nameField = new TextField(frame.name, {
+    onChange: (name) => {
+      // Like an asset name. The command rejects a blank name by itself; what it cannot do is
+      // put the old text back into the field, which is why an empty one is not sent at all.
+      if (name.trim()) host.state.execute(new RenameFrameCommand(assetId, frameId, name.trim()));
+      else host.nameField?.setValue(frame.name);
+    },
+  });
+  const { row } = labelledRow('Name');
+  row.add(host.nameField, 1);
+  host.body.add(row);
+  addNote(host, `Frame of the texture "${asset.name}".`);
+
+  addTitle(host, 'RECTANGLE (IMAGE PIXELS)');
+  for (const component of RECT_COMPONENTS)
+    rectRow(host, assetId, frameId, component.key, component.label, frame[component.key]);
+
+  addGap(host);
+  host.body.add(
+    new Button('Delete frame', {
+      variant: 'danger',
+      onClick: () => host.state.execute(new RemoveFrameCommand(assetId, frameId)),
+    }),
+  );
+}
+
+/** Pushes the frame's current name and rectangle into the rows. False when it is gone (rebuild). */
+export function refreshFrameSection(host: InspectorHost, assetId: string, frameId: string): boolean {
+  const frame = currentFrame(host.state.project, assetId, frameId);
+  if (!frame) return false;
+  host.nameField?.setValue(frame.name);
+  for (const component of RECT_COMPONENTS) host.fields.get(component.key)?.setValue(frame[component.key]);
+  return true;
+}
+
+/** A number row editing one component of the rectangle. Whole pixels: a frame indexes a bitmap. */
+function rectRow(
+  host: InspectorHost,
+  assetId: string,
+  frameId: string,
+  key: keyof FrameRect,
+  label: string,
+  value: number,
+): void {
+  const row = createFieldRow(
+    host,
+    { key, label, kind: 'number', default: 0, step: 1 },
+    value,
+    rectHandlers(host, assetId, frameId, key),
+  );
+  host.fields.set(key, row);
+  host.body.add(row.row);
+}
+
+/**
+ * The whole rectangle with one component replaced; the other three are read from the model at
+ * that moment, so a frame dragged in the Texture tab in between is not undone by typing into a
+ * field beside it.
+ *
+ * Normalising here as well as in the command is not a duplicate rule but the same one applied
+ * to the *preview*: an un-normalised preview would draw the frame off the sheet on the way
+ * through a scrub, and a half-typed "1" of "16" would jump it to the corner. Because it is the
+ * same function the command uses, what is previewed is exactly what is committed.
+ */
+function rectHandlers(
+  host: InspectorHost,
+  assetId: string,
+  frameId: string,
+  key: keyof FrameRect,
+): FieldHandlers {
+  return previewingHandlers<TextureFrame, FrameRect>(host, {
+    target: () => currentFrame(host.state.project, assetId, frameId),
+    read: frameRect,
+    write: setFrameRect,
+    toModel: (input, frame) => {
+      const asset = currentTexture(host.state.project, assetId);
+      return normalizeFrameRect(
+        { ...frameRect(frame), [key]: Number(input) },
+        asset?.width ?? 0,
+        asset?.height ?? 0,
+      );
+    },
+    commit: (rect) => new SetFrameRectCommand(assetId, frameId, rect),
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * The frame is looked up inside the selected texture rather than by its id alone: the
+ * selection names both, and honouring both keeps a selection left over from a deleted texture
+ * from editing whichever frame later inherits the id.
+ */
+function currentFrame(project: Project, assetId: string, frameId: string): TextureFrame | undefined {
+  return currentTexture(project, assetId)?.frames.find((f) => f.id === frameId);
+}
+
+function currentTexture(project: Project, assetId: string): TextureAsset | undefined {
+  const asset = findAsset(project, assetId);
+  return asset?.type === 'texture' ? asset : undefined;
+}

src/editor/shortcuts.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { RemoveFrameCommand } from '../core/commands/frameCommands';
 import { RemoveNodeCommand } from '../core/commands/graphCommands';
 import { ui } from '../ui';
 import { confirmDeleteAsset, createContainer, removeObjects } from './actions';
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ export function installShortcuts(state: EditorState, actions: ShortcutActions):
       const s = state.selection;
       if (s?.kind === 'object') removeObjects(state, s.sceneId, s.objectIds);
       else if (s?.kind === 'node') state.execute(new RemoveNodeCommand(s.assetId, s.nodeId));
+      else if (s?.kind === 'frame') state.execute(new RemoveFrameCommand(s.assetId, s.frameId));
       else if (s?.kind === 'asset') confirmDeleteAsset(state, s.assetId);
       return s !== null;
     }

src/editor/state.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ export type Selection =
   | { kind: 'object'; sceneId: string; objectId: string; objectIds: string[] }
   /** A node inside a behavior's graph. */
   | { kind: 'node'; assetId: string; nodeId: string }
+  /** A frame rectangle inside a texture asset (the Texture tab). */
+  | { kind: 'frame'; assetId: string; frameId: string }
   | null;
 
 /** Builds an object selection; the last id is the primary one unless given explicitly. */
@@ -235,6 +237,22 @@ export class EditorState {
       else if (!asset.graph.nodes.some((n) => n.id === s.nodeId))
         this.select({ kind: 'asset', assetId: s.assetId });
     }
+    if (s.kind === 'frame') {
+      const asset = findAsset(this.project, s.assetId);
+      // Same fallback as a graph node: the texture stays open when its frame vanished.
+      if (!asset || asset.type !== 'texture') this.select(null);
+      else if (!asset.frames.some((f) => f.id === s.frameId))
+        this.select({ kind: 'asset', assetId: s.assetId });
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** The texture asset the current selection refers to (the asset itself or one of its frames). */
+  get selectedTextureId(): string | null {
+    const s = this.selection;
+    if (!s) return null;
+    if (s.kind !== 'asset' && s.kind !== 'frame') return null;
+    const asset = findAsset(this.project, s.assetId);
+    return asset && asset.type === 'texture' ? asset.id : null;
   }
 
   /** The behavior asset the current selection refers to (asset, placed object or node), if any. */
@@ -242,6 +260,9 @@ export class EditorState {
     const s = this.selection;
     if (!s) return null;
     if (s.kind === 'node') return s.assetId;
+    // A frame names a texture and can never lead to a behavior. Answered here rather than
+    // fallen through, so what remains below is the asset/object pair the lookup assumes.
+    if (s.kind === 'frame') return null;
     const scene = s.kind === 'object' ? findScene(this.project, s.sceneId) : undefined;
     const assetId = s.kind === 'asset' ? s.assetId : scene && findObject(scene, s.objectId)?.assetId;
     const asset = assetId ? findAsset(this.project, assetId) : undefined;
@@ -276,5 +297,6 @@ export function sameSelection(a: Selection, b: Selection): boolean {
     );
   }
   if (a.kind === 'node' && b.kind === 'node') return a.assetId === b.assetId && a.nodeId === b.nodeId;
+  if (a.kind === 'frame' && b.kind === 'frame') return a.assetId === b.assetId && a.frameId === b.frameId;
   return false;
 }

src/editor/texture/SliceDialog.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+import type { TextureAsset } from '../../core/model/Asset';
+import { DEFAULT_SLICE, type SliceOptions, sliceFrames } from '../../core/model/texture';
+import { Button, Checkbox, HStack, Label, NumberField, Popup, Spacer, Theme, type Widget } from '../../ui';
+
+/** Width of the label column, matching the inspector's so the two read as one language. */
+const LABEL_WIDTH = 76;
+const FIELD_WIDTH = 76;
+
+/**
+ * Cuts a sheet into a grid. Asks for the number of columns and rows rather than a cell size:
+ * everyone knows how many tiles their sheet has, and deriving the cell size from the picture
+ * cannot disagree with it.
+ *
+ * The dialog states, live, how many frames the current numbers would produce and how big each
+ * one is. That readout is the whole point – it turns "did I mean 8×4 or 4×8" from something
+ * you find out by undoing into something you see before committing.
+ */
+export class SliceDialog extends Popup {
+  private readonly options: SliceOptions = { ...DEFAULT_SLICE };
+  private replace = true;
+  private readonly summary: Label;
+  private readonly confirm: Button;
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly asset: TextureAsset,
+    onSlice: (options: SliceOptions, replace: boolean) => void,
+  ) {
+    super({ modal: true, padding: Theme.padding * 2, gap: Theme.gap });
+    this.minWidth = 340;
+    this.content.add(new Label(`Slice "${asset.name}" into a grid`, { style: 'bodyBold' }));
+    this.content.add(new Label(`Picture is ${asset.width} × ${asset.height} px`, { style: 'muted' }));
+
+    this.content.add(this.pair('Columns', 'columns', 1, 'Rows', 'rows', 1));
+    this.content.add(this.pair('Offset X', 'offsetX', 0, 'Offset Y', 'offsetY', 0));
+    this.content.add(this.pair('Spacing X', 'spacingX', 0, 'Spacing Y', 'spacingY', 0));
+
+    const replaceRow = new HStack({ gap: Theme.gap, align: 'center' });
+    replaceRow.minHeight = Theme.rowHeight;
+    const box = new Checkbox(this.replace);
+    box.onChange = (value) => {
+      this.replace = Boolean(value);
+    };
+    replaceRow.add(box);
+    replaceRow.add(new Label('Replace the frames this texture already has', { style: 'muted' }));
+    this.content.add(replaceRow);
+
+    this.summary = new Label('', { style: 'muted' });
+    this.content.add(this.summary);
+
+    const buttons = new HStack({ gap: Theme.gap, align: 'center' });
+    buttons.add(new Spacer(), 1);
+    const cancel = new Button('Cancel');
+    cancel.onClick = this.closeThen();
+    buttons.add(cancel);
+    this.confirm = new Button('Slice', { variant: 'primary' });
+    this.confirm.onClick = this.closeThen(() => onSlice({ ...this.options }, this.replace));
+    buttons.add(this.confirm);
+    this.content.add(buttons);
+
+    this.refreshSummary();
+  }
+
+  /** Two numeric fields on one row – the grid's parameters come in x/y pairs. */
+  private pair(
+    labelA: string,
+    keyA: keyof SliceOptions,
+    minA: number,
+    labelB: string,
+    keyB: keyof SliceOptions,
+    minB: number,
+  ): Widget {
+    const row = new HStack({ gap: Theme.gap, align: 'center' });
+    row.minHeight = Theme.rowHeight;
+    row.add(this.labelFor(labelA));
+    row.add(this.fieldFor(keyA, minA));
+    row.add(new Spacer(Theme.padding));
+    row.add(this.labelFor(labelB));
+    row.add(this.fieldFor(keyB, minB));
+    row.add(new Spacer(), 1);
+    return row;
+  }
+
+  private labelFor(text: string): Label {
+    const label = new Label(text, { style: 'muted' });
+    label.minWidth = LABEL_WIDTH;
+    return label;
+  }
+
+  private fieldFor(key: keyof SliceOptions, min: number): NumberField {
+    const field = new NumberField(this.options[key], {
+      min,
+      step: 1,
+      onChange: (value) => {
+        this.options[key] = Math.round(Number(value));
+        this.refreshSummary();
+      },
+    });
+    field.minWidth = FIELD_WIDTH;
+    return field;
+  }
+
+  /** Live readout of what the current numbers would do, including the refusal case. */
+  private refreshSummary(): void {
+    const rects = sliceFrames(this.asset.width, this.asset.height, this.options);
+    const first = rects[0];
+    this.summary.setText(
+      first
+        ? `${rects.length} frames of ${first.w} × ${first.h} px`
+        : 'These numbers do not fit the picture – no frames.',
+    );
+    this.summary.setStyle(first ? 'muted' : 'body');
+    this.confirm.setEnabled(rects.length > 0);
+    this.refreshLayout();
+  }
+}

src/editor/texture/TextureCanvas.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,498 @@
+import {
+  Container,
+  type FederatedPointerEvent,
+  type FederatedWheelEvent,
+  Graphics,
+  Sprite,
+  Text,
+} from 'pixi.js';
+import { AddFrameCommand, SetFrameRectCommand } from '../../core/commands/frameCommands';
+import type { TextureAsset, TextureFrame } from '../../core/model/Asset';
+import type { Vec2 } from '../../core/model/Properties';
+import { findAsset } from '../../core/model/Project';
+import { type FrameRect, MIN_FRAME_SIZE, normalizeFrameRect } from '../../core/model/texture';
+import { type Size, Theme, textStyle, ui, Widget, zoomFactor } from '../../ui';
+import { textureLibrary } from '../../viewport/TextureLibrary';
+import type { EditorState } from '../state';
+import {
+  dragFrame,
+  fitView,
+  type FrameHandle,
+  frameHandles,
+  handleAt,
+  handleCursor,
+  handlePoint,
+  imageToLocal,
+  localToImage,
+  rectBetween,
+  type SheetView,
+  zoomAbout,
+} from './sheetView';
+
+/** Side of a resize handle in screen pixels – constant, so handles stay grabbable at any zoom. */
+const HANDLE_SIZE = 8;
+/** Pixels the pointer must travel before a press becomes a drag rather than a click. */
+const DRAG_THRESHOLD = 3;
+/** Side of one square of the transparency checkerboard, in screen pixels. */
+const CHECKER_SIZE = 8;
+const CHECKER_DARK = 0x1a1c21;
+const CHECKER_LIGHT = 0x24272e;
+/** Below this on-screen frame size the name is illegible clutter and is left out. */
+const MIN_LABEL_SIZE = 28;
+/** Inset of a frame's name plate from the frame's top-left corner, and its own padding. */
+const LABEL_INSET = 3;
+const LABEL_PAD = 2;
+
+/** A drag of an existing frame: which one, from what, and by which handle. */
+interface FrameDrag {
+  frameId: string;
+  handle: FrameHandle;
+  start: FrameRect;
+  pointer: Vec2;
+  moved: boolean;
+}
+
+/** A new frame being spanned on empty space (image pixels; nothing is in the model yet). */
+interface NewFrame {
+  start: Vec2;
+  current: Vec2;
+  active: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The Texture tab's canvas: one texture's picture with its frames drawn on top, where frames
+ * are created by dragging on empty space and moved or resized by their handles.
+ *
+ * Everything but the picture is drawn in widget-local pixels rather than in a zoomed
+ * container: outlines, handles and names have to keep a constant size on screen, which a
+ * scaled container would defeat. The picture itself is a Sprite whose scale is the zoom, so
+ * the GPU does the sampling – and `scaleMode` follows the texture's own Filter property, so a
+ * pixel-art sheet is inspected as crisp pixels rather than as the mush a smoothed preview
+ * would show.
+ */
+export class TextureCanvas extends Widget {
+  private readonly bg = new Graphics();
+  private readonly checker = new Graphics();
+  private readonly imageLayer = new Container();
+  private readonly image = new Sprite();
+  private readonly overlay = new Graphics();
+  private readonly labels = new Map<string, Text>();
+  private readonly labelLayer = new Container();
+  private readonly hint = new Text({ text: '', style: textStyle('muted') });
+  private readonly clip = new Graphics();
+  private view: SheetView = { panX: 0, panY: 0, zoom: 1 };
+  private assetId = '';
+  /** Fit the picture once the widget has a real size and a picture to fit (it starts hidden). */
+  private needsFit = true;
+  private panning: { pointer: Vec2; panX: number; panY: number } | null = null;
+  private dragging: FrameDrag | null = null;
+  private spanning: NewFrame | null = null;
+
+  constructor(private readonly state: EditorState) {
+    super();
+    this.imageLayer.addChild(this.image);
+    this.addChild(
+      this.bg,
+      this.checker,
+      this.imageLayer,
+      this.overlay,
+      this.labelLayer,
+      this.hint,
+      this.clip,
+    );
+    this.imageLayer.mask = this.clip;
+    this.imageLayer.eventMode = 'none';
+    this.overlay.eventMode = 'none';
+    this.labelLayer.eventMode = 'none';
+    this.hint.eventMode = 'none';
+    this.focusable = true;
+
+    this.on('pointerdown', (e: FederatedPointerEvent) => this.onPointerDown(e));
+    this.on('globalpointermove', (e: FederatedPointerEvent) => this.onPointerMove(e));
+    this.on('pointerup', () => this.onPointerUp());
+    this.on('pointerupoutside', () => this.onPointerUp());
+    this.on('wheel', (e: FederatedWheelEvent) => this.onWheel(e));
+
+    state.on('project', () => this.redraw());
+    state.on('selection', () => this.redraw());
+    state.on('load', () => {
+      this.needsFit = true;
+      this.redraw();
+    });
+    // A picture arrives asynchronously; until then there is nothing to fit the view to.
+    textureLibrary.onChange(() => this.redraw());
+  }
+
+  override measure(): Size {
+    return { w: Math.max(this.minWidth, 200), h: Math.max(this.minHeight, 200) };
+  }
+
+  /** Which texture is shown. Switching resets the view, since the next picture is a new subject. */
+  show(assetId: string): void {
+    if (this.assetId === assetId) return;
+    this.assetId = assetId;
+    this.needsFit = true;
+    this.redraw();
+  }
+
+  get currentAssetId(): string {
+    return this.assetId;
+  }
+
+  /** Refits the picture into the widget – the "reset view" the toolbar offers. */
+  fit(): void {
+    this.needsFit = true;
+    this.redraw();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Where an image pixel currently sits on screen. Only the check scripts need this: dragging
+   * a frame is done in image coordinates, so a test that cannot convert them can drag
+   * somewhere but cannot aim at a known part of the picture.
+   */
+  imageToScreen(x: number, y: number): Vec2 {
+    const local = imageToLocal(this.view, x, y);
+    const origin = this.getGlobalPosition();
+    return { x: origin.x + local.x, y: origin.y + local.y };
+  }
+
+  // --- model ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  private asset(): TextureAsset | null {
+    const asset = this.assetId ? findAsset(this.state.project, this.assetId) : undefined;
+    return asset && asset.type === 'texture' ? asset : null;
+  }
+
+  private selectedFrameId(): string {
+    const s = this.state.selection;
+    return s?.kind === 'frame' && s.assetId === this.assetId ? s.frameId : '';
+  }
+
+  private frame(frameId: string): TextureFrame | undefined {
+    return this.asset()?.frames.find((f) => f.id === frameId);
+  }
+
+  // --- pointer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  private onPointerDown(e: FederatedPointerEvent): void {
+    const asset = this.asset();
+    // Nothing is cut from a picture whose size is unknown: `normalizeFrameRect` has no bounds
+    // to hold such a frame inside, so it would keep a rectangle that lies off the sheet for
+    // good. An unmeasured texture is a failed upload, and the hint says so.
+    if (!asset || asset.width <= 0 || asset.height <= 0) return;
+    const local = this.toLocal(e.global);
+    if (e.button === 1 || (e.button === 0 && e.shiftKey)) {
+      this.panning = { pointer: { x: local.x, y: local.y }, panX: this.view.panX, panY: this.view.panY };
+      e.stopPropagation();
+      return;
+    }
+    if (e.button !== 0) return;
+    ui().focus.focus(this);
+    const point = localToImage(this.view, local.x, local.y);
+    const tolerance = HANDLE_SIZE / this.view.zoom;
+
+    // The selected frame is tested first and by its handles: it is the one being worked on,
+    // and its handles must stay reachable even where a frame drawn later overlaps them.
+    const selected = this.frame(this.selectedFrameId());
+    const onSelected = selected ? handleAt(selected, point, tolerance) : null;
+    if (selected && onSelected) {
+      this.startDrag(selected, onSelected, local);
+      e.stopPropagation();
+      return;
+    }
+    // Last first: later frames are drawn on top, so they are what a click on an overlap means.
+    for (let i = asset.frames.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+      const frame = asset.frames[i]!;
+      if (handleAt(frame, point, tolerance) === null) continue;
+      this.state.select({ kind: 'frame', assetId: asset.id, frameId: frame.id });
+      this.startDrag(frame, 'move', local);
+      e.stopPropagation();
+      return;
+    }
+    this.spanning = { start: point, current: point, active: false };
+    e.stopPropagation();
+  }
+
+  private startDrag(frame: TextureFrame, handle: FrameHandle, local: Vec2): void {
+    this.dragging = {
+      frameId: frame.id,
+      handle,
+      start: { x: frame.x, y: frame.y, w: frame.w, h: frame.h },
+      pointer: { x: local.x, y: local.y },
+      moved: false,
+    };
+  }
+
+  private onPointerMove(e: FederatedPointerEvent): void {
+    const local = this.toLocal(e.global);
+    if (this.panning) {
+      this.view = {
+        ...this.view,
+        panX: this.panning.panX + (local.x - this.panning.pointer.x),
+        panY: this.panning.panY + (local.y - this.panning.pointer.y),
+      };
+      this.redraw();
+      return;
+    }
+    if (this.dragging) {
+      const dx = (local.x - this.dragging.pointer.x) / this.view.zoom;
+      const dy = (local.y - this.dragging.pointer.y) / this.view.zoom;
+      if (!this.dragging.moved && Math.hypot(dx, dy) * this.view.zoom < DRAG_THRESHOLD) return;
+      this.dragging.moved = true;
+      this.previewDrag(dx, dy);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (this.spanning) {
+      this.spanning.current = localToImage(this.view, local.x, local.y);
+      const size = rectBetween(this.spanning.start, this.spanning.current);
+      if (!this.spanning.active && Math.max(size.w, size.h) * this.view.zoom < DRAG_THRESHOLD) return;
+      this.spanning.active = true;
+      this.redraw();
+      return;
+    }
+    this.updateCursor(local);
+  }
+
+  /** Applies a drag to the model directly, as a preview: no undo entry until the pointer is up. */
+  private previewDrag(dx: number, dy: number): void {
+    const drag = this.dragging;
+    const asset = this.asset();
+    const frame = drag && this.frame(drag.frameId);
+    if (!drag || !asset || !frame) return;
+    Object.assign(
+      frame,
+      normalizeFrameRect(dragFrame(drag.start, drag.handle, dx, dy), asset.width, asset.height),
+    );
+    this.state.preview();
+  }
+
+  private onPointerUp(): void {
+    this.panning = null;
+    const drag = this.dragging;
+    const span = this.spanning;
+    this.dragging = null;
+    this.spanning = null;
+
+    if (drag) {
+      const asset = this.asset();
+      const frame = this.frame(drag.frameId);
+      if (drag.moved && asset && frame) {
+        // The preview moved it already; put it back so the command records the real start.
+        const next: FrameRect = { x: frame.x, y: frame.y, w: frame.w, h: frame.h };
+        Object.assign(frame, drag.start);
+        this.state.execute(new SetFrameRectCommand(asset.id, drag.frameId, next));
+      }
+      return;
+    }
+    if (!span) return;
+    if (!span.active) {
+      // A click on empty space clears the selection, like everywhere else in the editor.
+      this.state.select({ kind: 'asset', assetId: this.assetId });
+      this.redraw();
+      return;
+    }
+    const asset = this.asset();
+    if (!asset) return;
+    const rect = normalizeFrameRect(rectBetween(span.start, span.current), asset.width, asset.height);
+    if (rect.w < MIN_FRAME_SIZE || rect.h < MIN_FRAME_SIZE) return;
+    const command = new AddFrameCommand(asset.id, rect);
+    if (this.state.execute(command))
+      this.state.select({ kind: 'frame', assetId: asset.id, frameId: command.frameId });
+    this.redraw();
+  }
+
+  private onWheel(e: FederatedWheelEvent): void {
+    const local = this.toLocal(e.global);
+    this.view = zoomAbout(this.view, zoomFactor(e.deltaY), local.x, local.y);
+    this.needsFit = false;
+    this.redraw();
+    e.preventDefault();
+  }
+
+  /** Announces what a press would do before it happens (resize arrows, move, crosshair). */
+  private updateCursor(local: Vec2): void {
+    const asset = this.asset();
+    if (!asset) {
+      this.cursor = 'default';
+      return;
+    }
+    const point = localToImage(this.view, local.x, local.y);
+    const tolerance = HANDLE_SIZE / this.view.zoom;
+    const selected = this.frame(this.selectedFrameId());
+    const handle = selected ? handleAt(selected, point, tolerance) : null;
+    if (handle) {
+      this.cursor = handleCursor(handle);
+      return;
+    }
+    const over = asset.frames.some((f) => handleAt(f, point, tolerance) !== null);
+    this.cursor = over ? 'move' : 'crosshair';
+  }
+
+  // --- drawing ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  override redraw(): void {
+    this.bg.clear().rect(0, 0, this.w, this.h).fill(Theme.colors.viewport);
+    this.clip.clear().rect(0, 0, this.w, this.h).fill(0xffffff);
+    const asset = this.asset();
+    const texture = asset && asset.file ? this.pictureOf(asset) : null;
+
+    if (asset && texture && this.needsFit && this.w > 0 && this.h > 0) {
+      this.view = fitView(asset.width, asset.height, this.w, this.h);
+      this.needsFit = false;
+    }
+
+    this.image.visible = Boolean(texture);
+    if (asset && texture) {
+      this.image.texture = texture;
+      this.image.position.set(this.view.panX, this.view.panY);
+      // The sprite is drawn at the picture's own pixel size, so the zoom is the whole scale.
+      this.image.width = asset.width * this.view.zoom;
+      this.image.height = asset.height * this.view.zoom;
+    }
+
+    this.drawChecker(asset, Boolean(texture));
+    this.drawFrames(asset);
+    this.syncHint(asset, Boolean(texture));
+  }
+
+  private pictureOf(asset: TextureAsset) {
+    return textureLibrary.get({
+      file: asset.file,
+      smooth: String(asset.props.filter ?? 'linear') !== 'nearest',
+      rect: null,
+      sourceWidth: asset.width,
+      sourceHeight: asset.height,
+    });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The checkerboard behind the picture. It is clipped to the picture rather than filling the
+   * widget: its job is to make transparent pixels of *this image* visible, and a board that
+   * ran past the edges would hide where the image actually ends.
+   */
+  private drawChecker(asset: TextureAsset | null, hasPicture: boolean): void {
+    this.checker.clear();
+    if (!asset || !hasPicture || asset.width <= 0) return;
+    const origin = imageToLocal(this.view, 0, 0);
+    const w = asset.width * this.view.zoom;
+    const h = asset.height * this.view.zoom;
+    this.checker.rect(origin.x, origin.y, w, h).fill(CHECKER_DARK);
+    // Only the squares that land inside the widget are worth emitting; a 4000 px sheet at a
+    // high zoom would otherwise cost tens of thousands of rectangles per redraw.
+    const from = (start: number, limit: number) => Math.max(0, Math.floor((limit - start) / CHECKER_SIZE));
+    const x0 = from(origin.x, 0);
+    const y0 = from(origin.y, 0);
+    const x1 = Math.min(Math.ceil(w / CHECKER_SIZE), from(origin.x, this.w) + 1);
+    const y1 = Math.min(Math.ceil(h / CHECKER_SIZE), from(origin.y, this.h) + 1);
+    for (let cy = y0; cy < y1; cy++) {
+      for (let cx = x0; cx < x1; cx++) {
+        if ((cx + cy) % 2 === 0) continue;
+        const px = origin.x + cx * CHECKER_SIZE;
+        const py = origin.y + cy * CHECKER_SIZE;
+        this.checker.rect(
+          px,
+          py,
+          Math.min(CHECKER_SIZE, w - cx * CHECKER_SIZE),
+          Math.min(CHECKER_SIZE, h - cy * CHECKER_SIZE),
+        );
+      }
+    }
+    this.checker.fill(CHECKER_LIGHT);
+  }
+
+  private drawFrames(asset: TextureAsset | null): void {
+    this.overlay.clear();
+    const alive = new Set<string>();
+    if (asset) {
+      const selectedId = this.selectedFrameId();
+      for (const frame of asset.frames) {
+        alive.add(frame.id);
+        this.drawFrame(frame, frame.id === selectedId);
+      }
+      const selected = this.frame(selectedId);
+      if (selected) this.drawHandles(selected);
+    }
+    if (this.spanning?.active) {
+      const rect = rectBetween(this.spanning.start, this.spanning.current);
+      const a = imageToLocal(this.view, rect.x, rect.y);
+      this.overlay
+        .rect(a.x, a.y, rect.w * this.view.zoom, rect.h * this.view.zoom)
+        .fill({ color: Theme.colors.marquee, alpha: 0.15 })
+        .stroke({ width: 1, color: Theme.colors.marquee });
+    }
+    for (const [id, label] of this.labels) {
+      if (alive.has(id)) continue;
+      label.destroy();
+      this.labels.delete(id);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private drawFrame(frame: TextureFrame, selected: boolean): void {
+    const a = imageToLocal(this.view, frame.x, frame.y);
+    const w = frame.w * this.view.zoom;
+    const h = frame.h * this.view.zoom;
+    const color = selected ? Theme.colors.accent : Theme.colors.collider;
+    this.overlay.rect(a.x + 0.5, a.y + 0.5, w - 1, h - 1).stroke({ width: selected ? 2 : 1, color });
+    this.syncLabel(frame, a, w, h, selected);
+  }
+
+  private drawHandles(frame: TextureFrame): void {
+    const half = HANDLE_SIZE / 2;
+    for (const handle of frameHandles()) {
+      const p = handlePoint(frame, handle);
+      const local = imageToLocal(this.view, p.x, p.y);
+      this.overlay
+        .rect(local.x - half, local.y - half, HANDLE_SIZE, HANDLE_SIZE)
+        .fill(Theme.colors.accentText)
+        .stroke({ width: 1, color: Theme.colors.accent });
+    }
+  }
+
+  private syncLabel(frame: TextureFrame, at: Vec2, w: number, h: number, selected: boolean): void {
+    let label = this.labels.get(frame.id);
+    // A name that does not fit inside its frame would be read as belonging to the neighbour.
+    const show = Math.min(w, h) >= MIN_LABEL_SIZE && at.x < this.w && at.y < this.h && at.x + w > 0;
+    if (!show) {
+      if (label) label.visible = false;
+      return;
+    }
+    if (!label) {
+      label = new Text({ style: textStyle('body') });
+      this.labels.set(frame.id, label);
+      this.labelLayer.addChild(label);
+    }
+    label.visible = true;
+    if (label.text !== frame.name) label.text = frame.name;
+    label.style.fill = Theme.colors.text;
+    const x = at.x + LABEL_INSET;
+    const y = at.y + LABEL_INSET;
+    label.position.set(x + LABEL_PAD, y + LABEL_PAD);
+    /*
+     * A dark plate behind the name, not just a colour choice for the text.
+     *
+     * The name is drawn *on the user's picture*, which may be any colour – the grey used at
+     * first vanished on the light quadrants of a test sheet, and no fixed colour can be safe on
+     * an arbitrary image. The plate makes the background known, so light text on it always
+     * reads. Same reasoning as the scene grid, which is drawn white at a low alpha rather than
+     * in a theme colour so that it survives whatever the scene puts behind it.
+     */
+    this.overlay
+      .roundRect(x, y, label.width + LABEL_PAD * 2, label.height + LABEL_PAD * 2, 2)
+      .fill({ color: 0x000000, alpha: selected ? 0.75 : 0.55 });
+  }
+
+  private syncHint(asset: TextureAsset | null, hasPicture: boolean): void {
+    const text = !asset
+      ? 'No texture selected – pick one in the Assets panel or import an image.'
+      : !asset.file
+        ? 'This texture has no picture yet.'
+        : !hasPicture
+          ? 'Loading…'
+          : asset.frames.length === 0
+            ? 'Drag on the picture to cut a frame, or use Slice to cut a grid at once.'
+            : '';
+    this.hint.text = text;
+    this.hint.visible = text !== '';
+    this.hint.position.set(Theme.padding * 2, Theme.padding * 2);
+  }
+}

src/editor/texture/TextureEditor.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+import { Graphics } from 'pixi.js';
+import { SliceFramesCommand } from '../../core/commands/frameCommands';
+import type { TextureAsset } from '../../core/model/Asset';
+import { findAsset } from '../../core/model/Project';
+import { Button, Dropdown, HStack, Label, Menu, type MenuItem, Spacer, Theme, VStack } from '../../ui';
+import type { EditorState } from '../state';
+import { SliceDialog } from './SliceDialog';
+import { TextureCanvas } from './TextureCanvas';
+
+/** Room kept for the "W × H px · N frames" readout, wide enough for a four-digit sheet. */
+const INFO_WIDTH = 190;
+
+/**
+ * The Texture tab: a picker for which texture is being worked on, the tools that act on the
+ * whole sheet, and the canvas the frames are drawn on.
+ *
+ * It follows the selection the way the graph editor does – selecting a texture asset (or one
+ * of its frames) shows it here – but it does not *force* the tab, and it keeps showing the
+ * last texture when the selection moves elsewhere. Otherwise clicking a sprite to check
+ * whether it wears the right frame would empty the tab you are working in.
+ */
+export class TextureEditor extends VStack {
+  private readonly canvas: TextureCanvas;
+  private readonly picker: Dropdown;
+  private readonly info: Label;
+  private readonly sliceButton: Button;
+  private readonly headerBg = new Graphics();
+
+  constructor(private readonly state: EditorState) {
+    super();
+    const header = new HStack({ gap: Theme.gap, padding: Theme.padding, align: 'center' });
+    header.minHeight = Theme.controlHeight + Theme.padding * 2;
+    header.addChildAt(this.headerBg, 0);
+
+    header.add(new Label('Texture', { style: 'muted' }));
+    this.picker = new Dropdown('—', { width: 200, onClick: () => this.openPicker() });
+    header.add(this.picker);
+    this.sliceButton = new Button('Slice…', { onClick: () => this.openSlice() });
+    header.add(this.sliceButton);
+    header.add(new Button('Fit', { onClick: () => this.canvas.fit() }));
+    header.add(new Spacer(), 1);
+    this.info = new Label('', { style: 'small', align: 'right' });
+    // Reserved rather than measured: the label is built empty, and a stack sizes it once from
+    // the text it had at the time – so without a floor the readout is clipped from then on.
+    this.info.minWidth = INFO_WIDTH;
+    header.add(this.info);
+
+    this.canvas = new TextureCanvas(state);
+    this.add(header);
+    this.add(this.canvas, 1);
+
+    state.on('selection', () => this.followSelection());
+    state.on('project', () => this.refresh());
+    state.on('load', () => {
+      this.canvas.show('');
+      this.followSelection();
+    });
+    this.followSelection();
+  }
+
+  /** The texture currently shown – the check scripts read this. */
+  get currentAssetId(): string {
+    return this.canvas.currentAssetId;
+  }
+
+  /** Shows a texture explicitly (opening the tab for a freshly imported image). */
+  show(assetId: string): void {
+    this.canvas.show(assetId);
+    this.refresh();
+  }
+
+  /** Where an image pixel of the shown sheet sits on screen – for the check scripts. */
+  imageToScreen(x: number, y: number): { x: number; y: number } {
+    return this.canvas.imageToScreen(x, y);
+  }
+
+  private followSelection(): void {
+    const id = this.state.selectedTextureId;
+    // Null merely means "the selection is about something else"; the tab keeps its subject.
+    if (id) this.canvas.show(id);
+    else if (!this.asset()) this.canvas.show(this.textures()[0]?.id ?? '');
+    this.refresh();
+  }
+
+  private asset(): TextureAsset | null {
+    const asset = findAsset(this.state.project, this.canvas.currentAssetId);
+    return asset && asset.type === 'texture' ? asset : null;
+  }
+
+  private textures(): TextureAsset[] {
+    return this.state.project.assets
+      .filter((a): a is TextureAsset => a.type === 'texture')
+      .sort((a, b) => a.name.localeCompare(b.name));
+  }
+
+  private openPicker(): void {
+    const items: MenuItem[] = this.textures().map((asset) => ({
+      label: asset.id === this.canvas.currentAssetId ? `● ${asset.name}` : asset.name,
+      onSelect: () => this.state.select({ kind: 'asset', assetId: asset.id }),
+    }));
+    if (items.length === 0) items.push({ label: 'No textures yet', onSelect: () => undefined });
+    new Menu(items, { searchable: true }).openBelow(this.picker);
+  }
+
+  private openSlice(): void {
+    const asset = this.asset();
+    if (!asset) return;
+    new SliceDialog(asset, (options, replace) => {
+      this.state.execute(new SliceFramesCommand(asset.id, options, replace));
+    }).openCentered();
+  }
+
+  private refresh(): void {
+    const asset = this.asset();
+    this.picker.setText(asset ? asset.name : 'No texture');
+    const count = asset?.frames.length ?? 0;
+    this.info.setText(
+      asset ? `${asset.width} × ${asset.height} px · ${count} ${count === 1 ? 'frame' : 'frames'}` : '',
+    );
+    // Slicing needs a known picture size; without one it could only fail with a notice.
+    this.sliceButton.setEnabled(Boolean(asset && asset.width > 0 && asset.height > 0));
+  }
+
+  override redraw(): void {
+    super.redraw();
+    this.headerBg.clear();
+    const h = Theme.controlHeight + Theme.padding * 2;
+    this.headerBg.rect(0, 0, this.w, h).fill(Theme.colors.panelHeader);
+    this.headerBg.rect(0, h - 1, this.w, 1).fill(Theme.colors.border);
+  }
+}

src/editor/texture/sheetView.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+/**
+ * How the Texture tab maps image pixels onto the widget, and what a drag on a frame means.
+ * Pure geometry – no Pixi, no editor state – so the fiddly part of the editor (which handle
+ * did I grab, what does dragging it do) is unit-testable instead of only clickable.
+ */
+import type { FrameRect } from '../../core/model/texture';
+import type { Vec2 } from '../../core/model/Properties';
+
+/** Image pixel `(0, 0)` sits at (`panX`, `panY`) in widget-local pixels, at `zoom` per pixel. */
+export interface SheetView {
+  panX: number;
+  panY: number;
+  zoom: number;
+}
+
+export const MIN_SHEET_ZOOM = 0.05;
+export const MAX_SHEET_ZOOM = 64;
+
+/** Fraction of the widget the picture is fitted into, leaving a margin to grab and pan by. */
+const FIT_MARGIN = 0.9;
+
+export function imageToLocal(view: SheetView, x: number, y: number): Vec2 {
+  return { x: view.panX + x * view.zoom, y: view.panY + y * view.zoom };
+}
+
+export function localToImage(view: SheetView, x: number, y: number): Vec2 {
+  return { x: (x - view.panX) / view.zoom, y: (y - view.panY) / view.zoom };
+}
+
+/** The view that centres the whole picture in a `w`×`h` widget. */
+export function fitView(imageWidth: number, imageHeight: number, w: number, h: number): SheetView {
+  if (imageWidth <= 0 || imageHeight <= 0 || w <= 0 || h <= 0) return { panX: 0, panY: 0, zoom: 1 };
+  const zoom = clampZoom(Math.min(w / imageWidth, h / imageHeight) * FIT_MARGIN || 1);
+  return {
+    panX: (w - imageWidth * zoom) / 2,
+    panY: (h - imageHeight * zoom) / 2,
+    zoom,
+  };
+}
+
+export function clampZoom(zoom: number): number {
+  return Math.max(MIN_SHEET_ZOOM, Math.min(MAX_SHEET_ZOOM, zoom));
+}
+
+/** Zooms about a fixed widget-local point, so the pixel under the cursor stays under it. */
+export function zoomAbout(view: SheetView, factor: number, localX: number, localY: number): SheetView {
+  const zoom = clampZoom(view.zoom * factor);
+  const before = localToImage(view, localX, localY);
+  const after = { panX: localX - before.x * zoom, panY: localY - before.y * zoom, zoom };
+  return after;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Which part of a frame a point grabs: a corner or edge handle (`hx`/`hy` in −1/0/1, naming
+ * the edge each axis is pinned to), `'move'` anywhere else inside it, or null outside.
+ */
+export type FrameHandle = { hx: -1 | 0 | 1; hy: -1 | 0 | 1 } | 'move';
+
+/** The nine anchor points of a rectangle; (0, 0) is its centre and is not a handle. */
+const HANDLES: { hx: -1 | 0 | 1; hy: -1 | 0 | 1 }[] = [
+  { hx: -1, hy: -1 },
+  { hx: 1, hy: -1 },
+  { hx: -1, hy: 1 },
+  { hx: 1, hy: 1 },
+  { hx: 0, hy: -1 },
+  { hx: 0, hy: 1 },
+  { hx: -1, hy: 0 },
+  { hx: 1, hy: 0 },
+];
+
+/** Where a handle sits, in image pixels. */
+export function handlePoint(rect: FrameRect, handle: { hx: number; hy: number }): Vec2 {
+  return {
+    x: rect.x + ((handle.hx + 1) / 2) * rect.w,
+    y: rect.y + ((handle.hy + 1) / 2) * rect.h,
+  };
+}
+
+export function frameHandles(): readonly { hx: -1 | 0 | 1; hy: -1 | 0 | 1 }[] {
+  return HANDLES;
+}
+
+/**
+ * What a press at `point` (image pixels) does to `rect`. `tolerance` is the grab radius in
+ * image pixels – the caller converts a constant screen distance, so handles stay equally easy
+ * to hit at every zoom.
+ *
+ * Corners are tested before edges so that at a small frame, where all handles overlap, the
+ * corner wins: a corner resizes both axes and is the one worth reaching for.
+ */
+export function handleAt(rect: FrameRect, point: Vec2, tolerance: number): FrameHandle | null {
+  for (const handle of HANDLES) {
+    const p = handlePoint(rect, handle);
+    if (Math.abs(point.x - p.x) <= tolerance && Math.abs(point.y - p.y) <= tolerance) return handle;
+  }
+  const inside =
+    point.x >= rect.x && point.x <= rect.x + rect.w && point.y >= rect.y && point.y <= rect.y + rect.h;
+  return inside ? 'move' : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The rectangle a drag produces: `handle` decides which edges follow the pointer. The result
+ * may be inverted or stick out of the image – squaring it up is `normalizeFrameRect`'s job,
+ * so that a drag and a typed-in value are corrected by exactly one piece of code.
+ */
+export function dragFrame(start: FrameRect, handle: FrameHandle, dx: number, dy: number): FrameRect {
+  if (handle === 'move') return { ...start, x: start.x + dx, y: start.y + dy };
+  const rect = { ...start };
+  if (handle.hx === -1) {
+    rect.x += dx;
+    rect.w -= dx;
+  } else if (handle.hx === 1) {
+    rect.w += dx;
+  }
+  if (handle.hy === -1) {
+    rect.y += dy;
+    rect.h -= dy;
+  } else if (handle.hy === 1) {
+    rect.h += dy;
+  }
+  return rect;
+}
+
+/** The rectangle spanned by two points, in either order. */
+export function rectBetween(a: Vec2, b: Vec2): FrameRect {
+  return { x: Math.min(a.x, b.x), y: Math.min(a.y, b.y), w: Math.abs(b.x - a.x), h: Math.abs(b.y - a.y) };
+}
+
+/** The mouse cursor a handle asks for, so a resize edge announces itself before it is grabbed. */
+export function handleCursor(handle: FrameHandle): string {
+  if (handle === 'move') return 'move';
+  if (handle.hx === 0) return 'ns-resize';
+  if (handle.hy === 0) return 'ew-resize';
+  return handle.hx === handle.hy ? 'nwse-resize' : 'nesw-resize';
+}

src/viewport/symbols.ts

@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@
  * separate Pixi Text), and the editor symbols for cameras, behaviors, containers and
  * colliders. Everything here draws in world units at the item's origin.
  */
-import { type Graphics, Rectangle } from 'pixi.js';
+import { type Graphics, Matrix, Rectangle, type Texture } from 'pixi.js';
+import type { TextureRef } from '../core/model/texture';
 import { BEHAVIOR_SYMBOL, CONTAINER_SYMBOL, textAnchor } from '../core/properties/bounds';
 import { type ColliderShape, colliderShape, isTrigger } from '../core/properties/collider';
 import { Theme } from '../ui';
 import type { DrawItem } from './items';
+import { frameFillMatrix } from './textureFill';
 import type { TextureLibrary } from './TextureLibrary';
 
 /** Screen-pixel half-width of the band along a collider's outline that grabs the collider. */
@@ -32,10 +34,9 @@ export function drawItem(
       // Null while the picture is still loading, so the box shows its plain colour until then –
       // which is exactly what a sprite looked like before textures existed. No flicker, no
       // placeholder. With a picture the colour tints it (verified: white x 0x66aaff reads back
-      // as rgb(98,163,245)), and Pixi fits an unmatrixed texture fill to the shape's bounds,
-      // so nothing here has to compute a texture matrix.
+      // as rgb(98,163,245)).
       const texture = item.texture ? textures.get(item.texture) : null;
-      node.rect(-size.w / 2, -size.h / 2, size.w, size.h).fill(texture ? { texture, color } : color);
+      node.rect(-size.w / 2, -size.h / 2, size.w, size.h).fill(spriteFill(texture, color, item.texture));
       return;
     }
     case 'camera':
@@ -101,6 +102,26 @@ export function drawItem(
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * The fill a sprite's box takes: the plain colour while there is no picture, the picture
+ * tinted by that colour once there is one.
+ *
+ * Only a frame gets a matrix. An unmatrixed fill spreads the whole image over the shape, which
+ * is precisely what a whole-image sprite wants, and skipping the matrix there saves Pixi the
+ * inversion on every redraw of every such sprite. See `textureFill.ts` for why a frame cannot
+ * be drawn as a Pixi sub-texture instead.
+ */
+function spriteFill(
+  texture: Texture | null,
+  color: number,
+  ref: TextureRef | null,
+): number | { texture: Texture; color: number; matrix?: Matrix } {
+  if (!texture || !ref) return color;
+  const m = ref.rect && frameFillMatrix(ref.rect, ref.sourceWidth, ref.sourceHeight);
+  if (!m) return { texture, color };
+  return { texture, color, matrix: new Matrix(m.a, m.b, m.c, m.d, m.tx, m.ty) };
+}
+
 /** Hit area covering only the outline band of a collider shape (local coordinates, world units). */
 function colliderOutlineHitArea(
   shape: ColliderShape,

src/viewport/textureFill.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+import type { FrameRect } from '../core/model/texture';
+
+/** The six numbers of a 2D affine matrix, in Pixi's `Matrix(a, b, c, d, tx, ty)` order. */
+export interface MatrixValues {
+  a: number;
+  b: number;
+  c: number;
+  d: number;
+  tx: number;
+  ty: number;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The `matrix` a Graphics fill needs so that only `rect` of a `sourceWidth`×`sourceHeight`
+ * image covers the filled shape – how a sprite wears one frame of a sheet.
+ *
+ * Measured, not assumed. Two things about Pixi v8 make this the answer:
+ *
+ *  - A `Texture` built with a `frame` reports the frame's size, but a Graphics **fill ignores
+ *    it** and draws the whole source. Verified by reading back pixels: a fill with a 32×32
+ *    frame of a four-quadrant sheet showed all four quadrants. Sub-textures are therefore not
+ *    a way to draw a frame.
+ *  - `generateTextureMatrix` computes `uv = inverse(style.matrix) ∘ normalise(shapeBounds)`,
+ *    where the normaliser maps the shape's bounding box onto the unit square. So an absent
+ *    matrix spreads the whole image over the shape (which is why a whole-image sprite needs
+ *    none), and to spread a sub-rectangle instead, `inverse(style.matrix)` has to be the map
+ *    from the unit square onto that rectangle in UV space – making the matrix its inverse.
+ *
+ * Because the normaliser works off the shape's own bounds, this is independent of where the
+ * shape sits and how big it is; verified with an off-origin, non-square shape.
+ */
+export function frameFillMatrix(
+  rect: FrameRect,
+  sourceWidth: number,
+  sourceHeight: number,
+): MatrixValues | null {
+  // Without a known image size the rectangle has no reference frame; drawing the whole
+  // picture is the honest answer, and it is what the sprite showed a moment ago anyway.
+  if (sourceWidth <= 0 || sourceHeight <= 0 || rect.w <= 0 || rect.h <= 0) return null;
+  return {
+    a: sourceWidth / rect.w,
+    b: 0,
+    c: 0,
+    d: sourceHeight / rect.h,
+    tx: -rect.x / rect.w,
+    ty: -rect.y / rect.h,
+  };
+}