Playing part of an animation xml file

[michalis]

@Carring

So every next Playanimation command should “wait” for the previous one to finish, but I don’t know how.

Use TPlayAnimationParameters.StopNotification feature to implement “playing a list of animations, in a sequence”.

This mechanism was already mentioned, with examples, in 2 threads where you participated

1. Sprite control with the new system - #2 by michalis ,

2. Play all animations in sequence - #8 by michalis .

The latter thread contains a ready example from me that you can adjust to do exactly what you need here. It implements RunAllAnimations , taking AnimList := Scene.AnimationsList. You can adjust it to implement instead

RunAnimationList(const Scene: TCastleSceneCore; const AnimNames: array of Strings)

You would then call it like

RunAnimationList(Scene, ['kyleyturnfronttosw’,‘kyleyturnswtoleft’, ‘kyleyturnlefttonw’, ‘kyleyturnnwtoback'])

The only difference between your RunAnimationList and the RunAllAnimations is how to populate the AnimList, list of animations scheduled to play. In RunAnimationList you should

• make sure to clear AnimList and stop current animation, if any
• populate the AnimList with new animation names you want to play (``AnimNames` from my declaration)

@Carring

This looks interesting because I would be able to create different xml files for the same .png, so using different anim names for the same images and so different subsets.

You can already do this. You can refer to the same PNG image from multiple sprite sheets, in any format (Starling XML or .castle-sprite-sheets), this was never a problem. You can just edit the XML files in a text editor to make them refer to the same PNG.

The “Support for multile atlas files for one sprite sheet” ticket you mention is about a different thing – to have one .castle-sprite-sheet refer to multiple PNG files.

@Carring

But the sprite editor development looks quiet for some Months and is not updated since 21 April.

Because the main features are working and we are just using them, see e.g. recent news about Platformer by Castle Game Engine release – it’s a CGE demo that is using new sprite sheets for everything.