Question

I made this question yesterday: background repeat tiled bgImage inside an sprite image?

So as long is not posible to repeat backgrounds wich are inside of a sprite image,

What is the best* strategy when creating the sprite?

i mean, choosing:

• should i try to put ALL the images in one sprite? (including big backgrounds that could be repeated)
• One sprite for icons. Backgrounds a part?
• other

*) when i say best i mean with the most accesible/usable/perfomance

Answer 1

i am always create three sprite sheets.

first; for those images which is not repeating at all like arrow, button etc.

second; for those images which repeating y-axis.

third; for those images which repeating x-axis.

or
If there is no repeating images in the design then there is no need for other to sprite sheets

sprite for x-axis http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/401/xaxissprites.png/

sprite for y-axis http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/yaxissprites.jpg/