How to handle large frame animations

cocos2d-x C++
#1

Hi everybody,
in my game I have a character with a lot of different animations. The size of the character is about 350x350 px, so the sprite sheets i build with TexturePacker easily raise the 2048x2048 marker. I would like to know, what is the best way to handle this problem.

My first idea was to generate different spritesheets and load them in different Batch Nodes. But if i do so I have to add multiple sprites for only 1 character.

batchnode_A = cocos2d::SpriteBatchNode::create("spritesheet_A.png");
batchnode_B = cocos2d::SpriteBatchNode::create("spritesheet_B.png");

cache->addSpriteFramesWithFile("spritesheet_A.plist");
cache->addSpriteFramesWithFile("spritesheet_B.plist");

sprite_A = cocos2d::Sprite::createWithSpriteFrameName("spriteframe_A1.png");
sprite_B = cocos2d::Sprite::createWithSpriteFrameName("spriteframe_B1.png");

batchnode_A->addChild(sprite_A);
batchnode_B->addChild(sprite_B);
layer->addChild(batchnode_A);
layer->addChild(batchnode_B);

if I move the character I have to move all sprites. And if I want to play an animation from spritesheet_A I have to set sprite_A visible and all other sprite_X invisible.

Is that the only way to handle lot of animations for only 1 character?

#2

Why are you concerned about 2048x2048 as a limit?

#3

Consider skeletal animation.

#4

because the max texture size for iPhone 4 is 2048x2048 and I want to support it.

#5

skeletal animation is unfortunately not an option because of the character design.