Hey! I’m currently trying to modify the endless runner tutorial. I’d like to Change the frog 
Spline Animation into my own Animation wich is a flip-book Animation.
I’m not that much of an skripting pro and am happy if I actaully understand the code… 
How can I turn all the logic of the vector based Spline aniamtion into the flip-book Animation?
Is there an easy way to do that? Thanks in Advance 
There’s very little work needed. You basically set up new flip book animations and play them instead of the spine ones. If you use the same animation names as the spine ones, you only need to change the play_animation(self, anim) function so it plays a flipbook instead.
Thanks a lot! It’s working halfway. Only changing the
play_animation(self,anim) to msg.post(“#sprite”, “play_animation”, {id = hash(“run_right”)})
had my character running but didn’t use the jumping Animation.
I had to change the local function update_animation(self) too only Problem is: now the character isn’t running anymore… but the jumping works 
Did you set the play back mode of your run animation in your atlas/tilesource to loop forward.?
There’s a sprite.play_flipbook() function recently introduced to the API to make it a bit easier to play sprite flipbook animations.
In my case it’s set to loop backwards but yes it is.
Thanks! I tried it with the function
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", {id = hash(“run_right”)})
now the character is running with something like a afterimage and jumping out of the frame never coming back
I get the ERROR notice
hero/hero.script:41: bad argument #2 to ‘play_flipbook’ (hash or string expected, got table)
Edit: okay changed the code line to
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", “fall_right”)
now it’s working like before, no running animation but the jumping animation works 
Well, hard to tell why it isn’t working. It should be ok to simply replace all calls to spine.play_anim() with matching calls to sprite.play_flibook(). Double check all animation names and check the console for errors.
Also make sure that the animations have the right playback. Is the run animation playing once or not at all?
I think at the beginnig it’s playing one frame from the run animation before going sliding and using the fall aimation unless I jump.
the playback is set to loop backwards for run, the jump and fall aniamtion have only one frame and are set to none
I looked if I have missed any call but found only the play_animation and the update_animation that had the spine.play_anim() 
When I changed the update_animation the character runs endless, as soon as I change the update_aniamtion function it stops running completly… I don’t get it
Perhaps you can share some code? It’s difficult to guess the exact problem
Okay, here u go the whole hero.script I hope it helps
-- gravity pulling the player down in pixel units/sˆ2
local gravity = -20
-- take-off speed when jumping in pixel units/s
local jump_takeoff_speed = 900
function init(self)
-- this tells the engine to send input to on_input() in this script
msg.post(".", "acquire_input_focus")
-- save the starting position
self.position = go.get_position()
msg.post("#", "reset")
-- keep track of movement vector and if there is ground contact
self.velocity = vmath.vector3(0, 0, 0)
self.ground_contact = false
end
function final(self)
-- Return input focus when the object is deleted
msg.post(".", "release_input_focus")
end
-- hero.script
local function play_animation(self, anim)
-- only play animations which are not already playing
if self.anim ~= anim then
-- tell the spine model to play the animation
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", "run_right")
-- remember which animation is playing
self.anim = anim
end
end
local function update_animation(self)
-- make sure the right animation is playing
if self.ground_contact then
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", "run_right")
else
if self.velocity.y > 0 then
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", "jump_right")
else
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", "fall_right")
end
--sprite.play_flipbook(url, id)
end
end
function update(self, dt)
local gravity = vmath.vector3(0, gravity, 0)
if not self.ground_contact then
-- Apply gravity if there's no ground contact
self.velocity = self.velocity + gravity
end
-- apply velocity to the player character
go.set_position(go.get_position() + self.velocity * dt)
update_animation(self)
-- reset volatile state
self.correction = vmath.vector3()
self.ground_contact = false
end
local function handle_geometry_contact(self, normal, distance)
-- project the correction vector onto the contact normal
-- (the correction vector is the 0-vector for the first contact point)
local proj = vmath.dot(self.correction, normal)
-- calculate the compensation we need to make for this contact point
local comp = (distance - proj) * normal
-- add it to the correction vector
self.correction = self.correction + comp
-- apply the compensation to the player character
go.set_position(go.get_position() + comp)
-- check if the normal points enough up to consider the player standing on the ground
-- (0.7 is roughly equal to 45 degrees deviation from pure vertical direction)
if normal.y > 0.7 then
self.ground_contact = true
end
-- project the velocity onto the normal
proj = vmath.dot(self.velocity, normal)
-- if the projection is negative, it means that some of the velocity points towards the contact point
if proj < 0 then
-- remove that component in that case
self.velocity = self.velocity - proj * normal
end
end
function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
if message_id == hash("reset") then
self.velocity = vmath.vector3(0, 0, 0)
self.correction = vmath.vector3()
self.ground_contact = false
self.anim = nil
go.set(".", "euler.z", 0)
go.set_position(self.position)
msg.post("#collisionobject", "enable")
elseif message_id == hash("contact_point_response") then
-- check if we received a contact point message
if message.group == hash("end") then
-- Die and restart
play_animation(self, hash("jump_right"))
go.animate(".", "euler.z", go.PLAYBACK_ONCE_FORWARD, 160, go.EASING_LINEAR, 0.7)
go.animate(".", "position.y", go.PLAYBACK_ONCE_FORWARD, go.get_position().y - 200, go.EASING_INSINE, 0.5, 0.2,
function()
msg.post("#", "end")
end)
elseif message.group == hash("geometry") then
handle_geometry_contact(self, message.normal, message.distance)
end
end
end
local function jump(self)
-- only allow jump from ground
if self.ground_contact then
-- set take-off speed
self.velocity.y = jump_takeoff_speed
end
end
local function abort_jump(self)
-- cut the jump short if we are still going up
if self.velocity.y > 0 then
-- scale down the upwards speed
self.velocity.y = self.velocity.y * 0.5
end
end
function on_input(self, action_id, action)
if action_id == hash("jump") or action_id == hash("touch") then
if action.pressed then
jump(self)
elseif action.released then
abort_jump(self)
end
end
end
EDIT: I changed so it uses the code formatting /Mathias
local function update_animation(self)
-- make sure the right animation is playing
if self.ground_contact then
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", "run_right")
else
if self.velocity.y > 0 then
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", "jump_right")
else
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", "fall_right")
end
--sprite.play_flipbook(url, id)
end
end
This function will start the animation over all the time. You should only call it when the animation should change.
How do I change that? I didn’t write the Code myself.
That’s the code from the tutorial, wich works fine with the frog (except the changes in the play_animation function and the update_aimation function) I didn’t change anything in the code
Well, your difference from the tutorial is that you omitted the play_animation()call.
That call makes sure you only play the animation if it’s a different one.
Here’s the original tutorial code:
local function play_animation(self, anim)
-- only play animations which are not already playing
if self.anim ~= anim then
-- tell the spine model to play the animation
spine.play("#spinemodel", anim, go.PLAYBACK_LOOP_FORWARD, 0.15)
-- remember which animation is playing
self.anim = anim
end
end
local function update_animation(self)
-- make sure the right animation is playing
if self.ground_contact then
play_animation(self, hash("run_right"))
else
if self.velocity.y > 0 then
play_animation(self, hash("jump_right"))
else
play_animation(self, hash("fall_right"))
end
end
end
I feel stupid… don’t I have it right here? before the update function? I only exchanged the code for the animation 
local function play_animation(self, anim)
-- only play animations which are not already playing
if self.anim ~= anim then
-- tell the spine model to play the animation
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", "run_right")
-- remember which animation is playing
self.anim = anim
end
end
local function update_animation(self)
-- make sure the right animation is playing
if self.ground_contact then
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", "run_right")
else
if self.velocity.y > 0 then
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", "jump_right")
else
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", "fall_right")
end
--sprite.play_flipbook(url, id)
end
end
#1 sign of learning stuff, tbh – you go, man! 
You never call the function play_animation, you only call sprite.play_flipbook directly every frame, which causes the animation to start over.
Try something like this (untested):
local function play_animation(self, anim)
-- only play animations which are not already playing
if self.anim ~= anim then
-- tell the spine model to play the animation
sprite.play_flipbook("#sprite", anim)
-- remember which animation is playing
self.anim = anim
end
end
local function update_animation(self)
-- make sure the right animation is playing
if self.ground_contact then
play_animation(self, "run_right")
else
if self.velocity.y > 0 then
play_animation(self, "jump_right")
else
play_animation(self, "fall_right")
end
end
end
Very true!
Ahhhh! okay now I get it! 
That actually makes sense
And oh my gosh! It works! Thank you!!