Changing a SKSpriteNode's anchor point during animation?

Question

So I have the function below that starts my characters attack animation, the only problem is that the two textures are different sizes hence the "resize: true". What I want to do is change the anchor point of the second texture so that when my character attacks instead of the second texture being centered, moving the body of the character, I want it to be slightly offset to the right so that the body aligns with the previous texture's body.

Is there a way to have anchor points specific to a texture or would I need to change the Sprite's anchor point between frames?

func attackLeft() {
    attackLeftFrames = [attackLeft1, attackLeft2]
    attackLeftAction = SKAction.animate(with: attackLeftFrames, timePerFrame: 0.25, resize:true, restore:true)
    forever = SKAction.repeatForever(attackLeftAction)
    self.run(forever, withKey: "attackLeft")
}

changing the anchor point is a bad idea, if you want to deal with resizing animations, you should design all of your texture based on a certain anchor point and plan accordingly. (This gets a little tricky when dealing with photoshop because the layers will not overlay themselves nicely) — Knight0fDragon

Alan Baumgartner Alan Baumgartner · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-03T19:05:40

So because I am working with fairly simple sprites (64x64) I just changed the texture itself, adding a specific amount of pixels to either side of the image to make it centered as the other would be. I would still like to know how to do this programmatically if possible though for future reference.

Changing a SKSpriteNode's anchor point during animation?

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