animated sprite not showing up

#1 Do you have the static sprite in the levelBuilder then call it to playAnimation()? If so, no can do. Just create an idile animation. An animation of "idleness". One cell two cells whatever. An object which is a static sprite will not call an animatedSprire. They are different branches of the tree.

#2 I'm not sure I follow what you are saying... I have a static sprite(one of the fish with 4 images of the fish on it. That I break down into 1 image of a fish(1 static sprite with 4 cells, only the one shows at a time). Then from that celled static sprite I make an animated sprite, so when I drag that animated sprite into the scene it shows up in the editor and its animated. I then drag that celled static sprite into the scene. So now in the editor I have 2 sprites showing the same fish. One is animated and one is static. I move both of the images over in the datablocks section, and make sure both sprites have the physics enabled. Then I run the game. The static sprite shows up, but the animated does not. So maybe I misunderstand what is supposed to happen, but I assumed that the animated sprite should show up just like the static sprite. Neither one do anything, I just wanted them displayed. But like I said I may be way off because I have never called a playAnimation().

#3 how is your object defined? is it a behaviorField? Not sure that matters, but my main concern is that staticSprites and animatedSprites can not interchange with each other (theory). My advice, would be, create two animatedSprites, however one will APPEAR static.

Try that, so have two animated sprites that should be called. I believe the reason is the container of the staticSprite cannot become animated and vice versa.


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#4 Normally a sprite/animated sprite wont show up because it doesn't have the scenegraph attribute i.e. there is no associated scenegraph so it isn't rendered.

Check the console when you run the game in the simulator or on a tethered devices - in xCode ... run->console

Look for any errors.

#5 Make sure that the 4-cell-image that the animation uses is above it in the datablock file. I have some vague memories that the animations doesn't work otherwise.

#6 Thanks for the suggestions all, I will check everything out when I get home tonight.

#7 also, make sure that the imageCell datablock is placed in the level datablock before the animation datablock, otherwise, the animation will call for a datablock it can not see.

#8 Thanks all, the problem was(I believe) that the datablocks were not in the correct order. So I'm back in the game! :D

#9 nice.


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