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   sunsu
   Member

   Hi Guys,

   I'm messing around with making what is sort of a "fighter" game, with a similar look of Street Fighter. Anyways, I'm looking for some tips on the best way to organize my "Character" object.

   Here are a couple of issues/questions I have:
   1) Should I make each "character" a layer? I'd like to be able to add children to the character so I could easily remove character specific effects. However, I'd also like to be able to use AtlasSprite so its easier to switch character "states" and so I conserve memory, but I can't add children to AtlasSprite.

   2) Whats the best way to organize (and recall) all my animations for each character type?

   Any other tips related to this would be highly appreciated, because I'm sure I haven't though of everything I need to ask :).

   Thanks!
   Sunsu

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   malphigian
   Member

   I'm still pretty much a newbie with Cocos, but why not make each character a subclass of Sprite? You can add AtlasSprites as children of the Sprite as needed, and otherwise treat the parent character as a normal Sprite.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   sunsu
   Member

   Hmm...good point with the sprite instead of a layer. I guess if u gave yourself plenty of alpha padding around the sprite, you would have plenty of room to add various visual effects to the Sprite as children.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Joao Caxaria
   Member

   You don't need the alpha padding for the children to appear. You can even use a CocosNode as the base for the character and just include whatever as children, they will still be drawn.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   zombie
   Member

   I thought about implementing a skeletal / keyframe animation system. That way animations would be smoother and reusable. You also need much less video memory.

   But I decide to get other things done first. Maybe that would be a good idea for you.

   - zombie

   Posted 2 years ago #

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