Animations

[Pawel]

@zayneddine

hi everyone, i am creating the sunnyside world game found in itchio, i have some questions,

Sunnyside World by danieldiggle - this one?

@zayneddine

1.the animations exist as a spritesheets seperately,all states of every animation in one image,
so for every animation i need to add a tilesource and then a sprite for the character, i have hair animation , hitting with sword animation , all seperatelty, my question is, is it okey to work like this? do i find problems later when the functionalities increase?

You can use a tilesource as source (Image property) for your sprite, no problem:

You then need to define animations in your tilesource, using then sequences from tile A to B, e.g. 1-10.

The problem, I believe you’re referring to, with the linked asset is that each animation is separated:

This is sadly not suited neither for atlas nor tilesource. Spritesheets, even for other engines, usually contain all animations as well. You can join all of those partial spritesheets into one actual spritesheet or export each frame separately and set up an atlas in Defold. With this asset you have aseprite source, so you can go both ways.

@zayneddine

2.i am drawing the map from a tilesource, is there any way to speed the process
thanks everyone

There are new Defold Tilemap Editor features released last year that speed up the process a lot (multiple tiles brush selection, copying, pasting, etc)

You can also use external Editors and import to Defold, like mentioned Tiled, but also TileSetter and Sprite Fusion:

Autotiles in Defold?

Tilesetter is now out. Productivity with this little tools is great! Wishing for Defold to look into adding autotiling in the editor Is it on your radar guys? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI3mZ3ynrTw (a quick introduction)