sprite-sheet

What's the best way of reading a sprite sheet in Java?

I'm writing a basic sprite engine for my own amusement and to get better aquainted with Java's 2d API. Currently I am making use of large numbers of separate .png files with transparent backgrounds to represent the various sprites and different frames of animation that I need. Most 'real world' game development projects seem to make use ...

How do I implement a sprite-sheet in OpenGLES for iPhone?

I am working from the GLSprite sample code example. What I want to know is what do I need to do to the code to have it treat my texture as a sprite-sheet? The only modification I have done so far is to create a 256 x 256 png of 16 smaller images to be my frames. I have never worked with sprite-sheets before. Thanks for your help. ...

XNA Game, Full Screen Animation / Video Playback

I have an XNA game (its a slot machine). I have some really cool animations my artist made for me that are more or less 1600x1000 and over 50 frames. For all of the animations so far I have been using sprite sheets. (Where all the frames are in one image file and when its rendered it chooses what part of the image to show). The proble...

Cocos2D SpriteSheet animation problem, my number of frames is much larger.

Hello, I am trying to use SpriteSheet to run an animation. My frames are of 320x480 in size each, So I am able to put max 6 frames on the texture image. But my animation consists of frame number ranging from 50 to 200 sometimes, and all are of size 320x480. But this much number of frames cannot be added on the Texture image as the size ...

working with large sprite sheets on iphone

Hi All, I am trying to use sprite sheet animation in my application. The first POC with a small sprite sheet worked fine but as i change the sprite sheet to a bigger one, i get "check_safe_call: could not restore current frame" warning and the application quits. A quick search revealed that this problem meant my app is taking too much ...

Sprite-Sheet BLIT with HTML 5 Canvas?

Looking for an example of someone doing a a sprite sheet BLIT with javascript and the HTML 5 Canvas tag. I've been looking at Processing.js a bit, but I haven't found a clear cut example of how to do it there. ...

How can I use more than one sprite sheet? cocos2d/iPhone

Hi all. I'm trying to use more than one sprite sheet because I can't fit them all on one and having two makes my ordering them easier (sprite sheet one sprites are in the back and have a lower zOrder). I'm currently doing: spriteSheet1 = [[CCSpriteSheet spriteSheetWithFile:@"spriteSheet1.png" capacity:3] retain]; [[CCSpriteFrameCache sh...

What are the pros and cons of a sprite sheet compared to an image sequence?

Hi, I come from a 2D animation background and so when ever I us an animated sequence I prefer to use a sequence of images. To me this makes a lot of sense because you can easily export the image sequence from your compositing/editing software and easily define the aspect. I am new to game development and am curious about the use of a s...