Sprite Sheet Animation Cocos2dx

Question

I've been working really hard for weeks now trying to get sprite sheet animation to work, and it isn't. I've tried, using this wiki page, http://www.cocos2d-x.org/wiki/Sprite_Sheet_Animation, and I've tried to make my own code, and neither have gotten e remotely close to where I want to be and I really have no idea what I'm doing here. Any help will be welcomed, and greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

The link you mention is pretty spot on. I have used it a few times recently and I'm working great. — GameDeveloper

mohakagr mohakagr · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-14T05:47:29

For sprite sheet animation you have to make a plist for all your images.

Download texture packer : https://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker

After installing the texture packer, add sprites to it and publish it.

It will create a plist. Add that plist and png to the resources folder of your project.

Now add the following code to the init() of your GameLayer :

SpriteFrameCache::sharedSpriteFrameCache()->addSpriteFramesWithFile("BowArrow.plist");
for (int i = 1; i <= 9; i++) {
     frame = String::createWithFormat("Bow%d.png", i);
     frames.pushBack(
     SpriteFrameCache::sharedSpriteFrameCache()->spriteFrameByName(
     frame->getCString()));
 }

Now you have all the sprites of plist in a framecache and you can run animation on them in the way you want.

I hope it helps.

Sprite Sheet Animation Cocos2dx

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