Make Animation from separate files (ie not spritesheet)

[AdamRyanGameDev]

Good morining!

From the API I believe animation is preloaded like so....

this.load.spritesheet('dude', 
        'src/games/firstgame/assets/dude.png',
        { frameWidth: 32, frameHeight: 48 }
    );

and then animated like so

this.anims.create({
    key: 'left',
    frames: this.anims.generateFrameNumbers('dude', { start: 0, end: 3 }),
    frameRate: 10,
    repeat: -1
});

However I would like to sometimes work off a list of .pngs eg face1.png, face2.png rather than a sprite sheet, how would I go about this via the animationManager, or would I have to manage it myself with a looping system of mine within the gameloop?

[rich]

Sure you can

Here's a quick example I made:

http://labs.phaser.io/view.html?src=src\animation\animation from png sequence.js

and the code:

var config = {
    type: Phaser.AUTO,
    parent: 'phaser-example',
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    backgroundColor: '#fbf0e4',
    scene: {
        preload: preload,
        create: create
    }
};

var game = new Phaser.Game(config);

function preload ()
{
    this.load.path = 'assets/animations/';

    this.load.image('cat1', 'cat1.png');
    this.load.image('cat2', 'cat2.png');
    this.load.image('cat3', 'cat3.png');
    this.load.image('cat4', 'cat4.png');
}

function create ()
{
    this.anims.create({
        key: 'snooze',
        frames: [
            { key: 'cat1', frame: null },
            { key: 'cat2', frame: null },
            { key: 'cat3', frame: null },
            { key: 'cat4', frame: null, duration: 50 }
        ],
        frameRate: 8,
        repeat: -1
    });

    this.add.sprite(400, 300, 'cat1').play('snooze');
}

 

[AdamRyanGameDev]

That's great, thanks again!

[rich]

In the 3.2.0 release you can leave out the 'frame: null' part too, but you'll need it for the current version.

[wexing]

Is it possible to do that on phase 2.6.2? 

[rich]

Nope. You'll have to write your own timer to call `setTexture`.