Change Animations with one Sprite?

[Darooooon]

Hi, I’m working on a character with sprite and animations.

unique_ptr<Sprite> sprite;
map<string, unique_ptr<Animate>> animations;
...
animations["Idle"]->initWithAnimation(Animation::createWithSpriteFrames(frames, 1.0 / numImgs));
sprite->initWithSpriteFrame(frames.front());

What I did before was to create one Sprite per one Animation.

But I don’t want to create by Sprite::createWithSpriteFrame() cause of allocating Sprite per Animation(I thought it need more memory).

Is that code right way to re-use one allocated Sprite object? or use setSpriteFrame() ?

[tranthor]

I think the best way for create animations is to have 2 files:

• png that contains all frames.
• plist that contains info of each frame.

I use ShoeBox for generate animation files.
After create both files, you can use AnimationCache:

Pre-load animation:
AnimationCache::getInstance()->addAnimationsWithFile("animation.plist");

Run animation:
sprite->runAction(RepeatForever::create(Animate::create(AnimationCache::getInstance()->getAnimation("animation"))));

Also it will be convenient use SpriteFrameCache for load the first frame as Sprite.

[Darooooon]

Thanks a lot.

I used TexturePacker to make .plist file but it does not have Animation information in .plist file. I failed to try what you wrote.

I installed ShoeBox, you mentioned, but I couldn’t even find Animation information in .plist file of ShoeBox.

If you don’t mind, could you give me some information about extracting .png files to .plist file within Animation?

[tranthor]

PNG and PLIST should be generated by the tool.
And after that, i forgot mention the third file: animation.plist.

In my case, i create this third file manually. Example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>animations</key>
 

    <dict>
        <key>animation</key>
        <dict>
            <key>delay</key>
            <real>0.2</real>
            <key>frames</key>
            <array>
                <string>sprite1.png</string>
                <string>sprite2.png</string>
                <string>sprite3.png</string>
                <string>sprite4.png</string>
                <string>sprite5.png</string>
           </array>
        </dict>
    </dict>    
   
    
</dict>
</plist>