Sprite Sheet Animation Questions (Frame Size, Pingpong Animation)

[adamyall]

I'm new to using Phaser, and I'm really excited to dig deeper into it. I followed the simple platformer tutorial and looked through the examples.
 

I then began work on adding new sprites and spritesheets to the game, and I'm running into issues.

 

1. I'm using Shoebox to generate spritesheets exactly like the one found in the multiple anims/seacreatures example. In Shoebox, I use the pivot point tool to set the centroid of each sprite.

http://renderhjs.net/shoebox/spritePivots.htm

This adds padding to the input png sprites, but when I generate the spritesheet, the padding is cropped, and instead there are the frameX, frameY, frameWidth, and frameHeight parameters in the spritesheet's XML.

Ideally, I would just be able to set my anchor to (.5,.5) and the sprite would use the pivot correctly. However, it seems that pivot only respects width and height, not frameWidth and frameHeight. How can I utilize frameWidth and frameHeight in phaser, esp. in relation to setting the sprites anchor?

 

2. Is pingpong animation looping supported by Phaser yet? The only mention I have found of it was from back in September. This would be a really good feature to have access to.

 

3. Is there a "Snap to nearest pixel" option for sprites and animations?

 

 

FrameWidthTest.zip