One spritesheet vs frame files for PIXI.extras.MovieClip?

[p1100i]

I kinda like the concept, to have one spritesheet file for my whole animation. However I've found in most of the PIXI related animation tutorials the use of loading all the frames as separate files.

 

Is it a bad practice from performance standpoints to use a PIXI Rectangle over the same texture to have the frames?

 

I'm just curious about the performance when the animation plays. The initial load is ofc better w/ this solution, but if this causes worse animation times than I need to change it, so my code:

createFrame = function createFrame(texture, offset, size) {  return new PIXI.Texture(texture, new PIXI.Rectangle(offset.x, offset.y, size.x, size.y));}animation = new PIXI.extras.MovieClip([  createFrame(texture, ...),  createFrame(texture, ...),  ...]);

[rich]

Always, always pack your frames into a sprite sheet. If you don't you'll break the WebGL batch system every single time it has to render one of your animated sprites. The performance loss from this will far exceed anything you could ever do with a Rectangle.

[ivan.popelyshev]

Translation: everything is ok in your code. Keep it up.