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Hi everyone!
After one hour of searching the forum and googling I'm confused, angry and sad. Why is it so difficult to create animations in Cocos2d?
I have a .png file containing several animations (walking, shooting etc.). Now I'd like to create multiple sprites on the screen, using this png for animations. How is that done?
I got totally lost in all those Sprite, SpriteSheet, Atlas, Animation, SpriteFrameCache, Action classes...
Can someone enlighten me?
Thanks!!!
A sprite sheet is a big PNG that has individual sprites contained inside of it. You definitely want to use that in this situation.
I recommend using Zwoptex to build your sprite sheet + metadata around where each sprite is located... it will save you a lot of time.
Did you check out the docs on the wiki?
You'll look back at this thread in a week or so when you've got your animations working and wonder where the confusion was. In the meantime I would recommend looking at the tests that come with cocos2d (in the tests directory) and the following tutorial;
http://www.raywenderlich.com/1271/how-to-use-animations-and-sprite-sheets-in-cocos2d
iphonechild
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http://cocoabugs.blogspot.com/2010/09/creating-ccwaves3d-animation-for-iphone.html contain some animation samples
Animation:
http://www.raywenderlich.com/1271/how-to-use-animations-and-sprite-sheets-in-cocos2d
Edit: Opps.. I should have read the whole thing through.. I guess I'll add my approval for Rays tutorials as well.
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