Hmm, but can’t you set the default animation to a single frame (the first frame of a multi frame animation)? This would solve issue #1 wouldn’t it?
I’m not sure issue number #2 should be taken care of by the engine. The expected behaviour is what you describe (last frame for once forward and first frame for backward and pingpong). If you need anything else you could easily program this behaviour into a reusable script with an exposed property defining the end animation for sprites with a single animation or into a reusable Lua module for sprites with many different animations. You could use something like this animator module that I just wrote. Example usage:
local animator = require("animator")
function init(self)
self.animator = animator.create("#sprite")
self.animator.set_done_animation("attack", "idle")
self.animator.set_done_animation("idle", "look")
self.animator.set_done_animation("look", "idle")
end
function on_input(self, action_id, action)
if action_id == hash("attack") and action.released then
self.animator.play("attack")
end
end
function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
self.animator.on_message(message_id, message)
end
In this example I’ve defined that once the “attack” animation has finished playing the “idle” animation should play. And since this allows nice chaining of multiple animations I’ve also defined that when the “idle” animation has finished the “look” animation should be played. And you can do a looping sequence of animations as well, in this case “look” will play “idle” and “idle” will play “look” in an infinite loop until another animation breaks the loop.
