Unhelpful warning: "Failed to fit all sprites in smart sprite sheet."

[LearnCocos2D]

• Why does this happen? (I know but not everyone does, should mention something like: "spritesheet texture size exceeded maximum texture size of 4096x4096 for target device")
• Which images are now missing from the spritesheet? What are their sizes?
• Why isn't this an error?

Main thing is as a user I'm pretty much left in the dark as to why the warning occurs, what its implications are (I could just ignore it, after all it's just a warning, right?), and how to fix it.

Ideally Spritebuilder should simply auto-split spritesheet textures, except where a single image already exceeds the max spritesheet size.

[andykorth]

Ran into this one today making some Mac spritesheets. Because of the odd scaling settings, I think I was actually limited to 1024x1024 on Mac. (because I chose iPhone to prevent it from rescaling my content)

[damiantrimboli]

+1

[damiantrimboli]

Smart sprite sheets are not pretty smart after all.