LibGDX Video Tutorial: Sprite Animation

In this tutorial, we look at animating sprites using the Animation class.  We look at loading sprites two different ways.  First creates them by splitting up a Texture loaded into memory.  The second example uses a texture atlas.  As always the code is provide below.

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Example 1:

package com.gamefromscratch;

import com.badlogic.gdx.ApplicationAdapter;
import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.GL20;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Texture;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.Animation;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.SpriteBatch;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.TextureRegion;

public class AnimationDemo extends ApplicationAdapter {
   SpriteBatch batch;
   Texture img;
   TextureRegion[] animationFrames;
   Animation animation;
   float elapsedTime;
   
   @Override
   public void create () {
      batch = new SpriteBatch();
      img = new Texture("walkcycle.png");

      TextureRegion[][] tmpFrames = TextureRegion.split(img,256,256);

      animationFrames = new TextureRegion[4];
      int index = 0;

      for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++){
         for(int j = 0; j < 2; j++) {
            animationFrames[index++] = tmpFrames[j][i];
         }
      }

      animation = new Animation(1f/4f,animationFrames);
   }

   @Override
   public void render () {
      elapsedTime += Gdx.graphics.getDeltaTime();
      Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
      batch.begin();
      batch.draw(animation.getKeyFrame(elapsedTime,true),0,0);
      batch.end();
   }
}

Example 2:

package com.gamefromscratch.com;

import com.badlogic.gdx.ApplicationAdapter;
import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.GL20;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Texture;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.Animation;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.SpriteBatch;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.TextureAtlas;

public class TextureAtlasAnimationDemo extends ApplicationAdapter {
   SpriteBatch batch;
   private TextureAtlas textureAtlas;
   private Animation animation;
   private float elapsedTime = 0f;
   
   @Override
   public void create () {
      batch = new SpriteBatch();
      textureAtlas = new TextureAtlas(Gdx.files.internal("spritesheets/myspritesheet.atlas"));
      animation = new Animation(1f/15f, textureAtlas.getRegions());
   }

   @Override
   public void dispose() {
      batch.dispose();
      textureAtlas.dispose();
   }

   @Override
   public void render () {
      elapsedTime += Gdx.graphics.getDeltaTime();
      Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
      batch.begin();
      batch.draw(animation.getKeyFrame(elapsedTime,true),0,0);
      batch.end();
   }
}

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