iOS Help with sprite animation.

[MrPenguin9]

Hi, I am trying to make a 2d game but I want to know, how do I do sprite animation(The animation of something exploding or someone walking.)

Thanks

 

[shusseina]

Being so new to iPhone development myself I can't answer your specific question, but have you checked out the sample code at Apple's iPhone Dev Center site?

Steve

 

[sesnir]

There are several ways to do it... and it partly depends on how you've designed the app so far... definitely check out Apple's docs though.

 

[xsmasher]

Hi, I am trying to make a 2d game but I want to know, how do I do sprite animation(The animation of something exploding or someone walking.)

Thanks

That kind of 2d animation is usually done by presenting a series of images in order - check out this sheet to see the kinds of images a game artist would provide:
http://www.yoyogames.com/extras/resource/file/san1/244/244/princespriteswb3.gif

You usually do *not* have separate sprites for arms, legs, head, etc, as you you would in 3d work.

You can display those images in order using something like UIImageView.animationImages, like so:
http://appsamuck.com/day2.html