How to walk & attack at the same time with 2 separate atlases?

[Aerion]

Hi folks. How do I get my character to walk and attack at the same time with 2 separate character atlas files?

For instance, when you're walking, you press a key & while holding the walking keys, you can swing your sword WHILE walking at the same time through 2 separate but similar animation atlases.

Thanks!

~M

Edited October 28, 2017 by Mythros

[Aerion]

Does anyone know?

[Aerion]

Can someone please help?

Thank You much!

~M

[Secretmapper]

Your question is too vague/general to answer.

I'm assuming you have 2 animation atlas (one walking and one attacking). You can move the sprite while having the attacking animation, but that's it - unless you have a 'attacking while walking' animation.

[Aerion]

Yes @Secretmapper I'm using 2 animation atlases.

[Andy R]

afaik sprites can't be associated to 2 sprites sheet (if by atlas you mean spritesheet).

you have to merge both animations in same spritesheet and then call the frames when you need it

[Aerion]

You can't just flip-flop? Or maybe trick it and change the sprite's alpha to 0 and switch to the 2nd sprite then after the attack set THAT alpha to 0 and switch back to the original sprite? I need a demo example that can do this.

[Skeptron]

You should look at Spine if you want to combine animations. Definitely the best way to do it.

[Aerion]

@Skeptron What is spine?

[Skeptron]

http://fr.esotericsoftware.com/

[Aerion]

Thank you but this doesn't  really help.. no offense.

~M

[Skeptron]

Well, if you used Spine you could combine all of your animations (walk and attack, run and block etc. etc.), and you would have only one atlas with just the body parts, not all the frames of all the animations. Infinite animation fluidity with infinite combinations.

[Aerion]

Again, thanks bro but it doesn't really help if I cannot afford it... Can someone please help that deals with atlases & animations?

Thanks

~M

 

[Secretmapper]

Combine your atlas to one, otherwise you'll have performance issues. If you want something easy though, you can switch out your texture atlas using `loadTexture`

sprite.loadTexture(key, frame, stopAnimation)

https://phaser.io/docs/2.6.2/Phaser.Sprite.html


That is, you can have the sprite, then when walking change the texture with loadTexture, and when attacking change it again with loadTexture. Again, I encourage you to combine these and just use multiple animations (attacking animation, walking animation)

However, note that it will always look like it's walking OR attacking, it can't be both - Think about it, your images sprite sheets are walking and attacking, no game engine will magically make it look like it's doing both. Unless you use a skeletal animation system like Spine, DragonBones, or Creature

[Aerion]

I just wanna walk and swing a sword. Link from Legend of Zelda series is a PERFECT idea of what I want to do here. As long as it can be done easily & free that's all I care about. An example would be great! <3

Thank you SO MUCH! <3

~M

[samme]

You need to do one of these:

• create a new atlas/spritesheet with all the frames
• use two sprites and switch between them by toggling exists
• use one sprite and switch between textures with loadTexture

 

[BitOfGold]

Or, (just an idea) you can have two sprites as layers over each other:
one is for the lower body (running)
one is for the upper body over it (fighting)

 

[Secretmapper]

On 11/9/2017 at 5:52 AM, Mythros said:

I just wanna walk and swing a sword. Link from Legend of Zelda series is a PERFECT idea of what I want to do here. As long as it can be done easily & free that's all I care about. An example would be great! <3

Thank you SO MUCH! <3

~M

The original Zelda doesn't walk and attack at the same time though. Can you link a gameplay video of the specific installment you mean?

Also, as I mentioned already, what you need to do is have a special/separate 'attacking while walking' animation. No engine can magically combine both, other than through clever tricks that would be harder for a beginner. For examlple, BitOfGold's idea might work for you, but now you are using two sprites to represent one while keeping them in sync and do all physics at the same time. Much easier and faster to just make the art