How to play animation from tilesource? (SOLVED)

[atrifanov]

Guys, good day!
I experiment with tilesourses. I created a tilesource made a tilemap from it, rendered it. I altered my tilemap with tilemap.set_tile calls. That works fine for me.
But I do not see the function that plays animations from tilesources. I created an animation in tilesource, but I do not see the way to put in into tilemap, nor to spawn it from source.
Please help!

[Pawel]

This is a frequent question, check the link in the end

We can’t animate tiles in a tilemap yet, but there are two workarounds:

If you want to animate selected tiles from a tilemap you can either create a sprite with a tilesource and put it over a tilemap in place of those tiles and play an animation or using only a tilemap create a script that will change each tile to a next tile in animation sequence in a timer - use tilemap.set_tile.

Tile Animations (#4636)

I’m shocked that Defold doesn’t have a built-in method of animating tiles on a tilemap. This is a basic feature of every tile map system out there. Actually Defold does have animated tiles, but for some reason they work perfectly well in the tilesource preview window, but not in the actual build…? Like if tile animations already work, did someone just forget to play them when they’re drawn on screen? Not sure why people are creating workarounds and such for this. Also not sure why this isn’t pa…

[WhiteBoxDev]

You can animate tiles using my Defold Tilemap Animator module here: https://defold.com/assets/tilemapanimator/

[Pawel]

Wow! This is amazing, thanks for this! Why didn’t I saw it earlier?

[WhiteBoxDev]

You’re welcome! Hope it serves you well. Let me know if you encounter any issues or have any suggestions for the module.