Switching sprite frames and working with templates

Hiya all,

This will seem quite basic I guess to some of you, but I'm wondering what is the best way to switch between 3 sprite images representing a building being progressively destroyed by projectiles. Can I:

- Work from a StaticSprite template and trigger frame switching through code?
- Work from an AnimatedSprite template and triggerer single animation frames through code?

How do you guys handle it with situations where you have a lot of destructible objects? Can we use templates for that, or do we absolutely have to work from individual sprites and manually switch the materials?

Any help appreciated,
Thx