Sprite animations

• Sprite animation preview
• Aseprite support

A Sprite game object is an image object with the capability of displaying frame-by-frame animations.

In Phaser Editor 2D there are two workflows for making animations in your game:

Workflow 1

Using the Animations Editor. It gets the image frames from an Asset Pack file and groups the frames into animations. You can set different properties to the animation, like the frame rate, repetitions, delay, etc… and finally, you load the animation file into the Asset Pack file.

Workflow 2

Exporting the animations from the Aseprite software. It outputs Asperite animation files that are Phaser-compatible and that you can load in an Asset Pack file.

Finally

Once the animation assets (produced by the Animations Editor or Aseprite) are defined in the Asset Pack file, you can use them in different tools of the Scene Editor:

• The animation blocks in the Blocks view. You can create a Sprite game object by dropping an animation block into the scene.

  

• The Animation and Animation Configuration sections of the Inspector view. It allows playing an animation on a Sprite game object.

  

• The Animation Key user property type. It allows selecting the name of an animation defined in an Asset Pack file.