With the sort of new API, how do I fix spritesheets?

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-01-04 19:27:45
User: Dmartin42 [] (age: 1435 days 🔥; posts: 36)}
My code is giving errors on the Spritesheet.find() method. How do I fix this with the new version of the engine?
public class Player1AnimationController extends EntityAnimationController<Player1> { public Player1AnimationController(Player1 player) { super(player, new Animation(Spritesheet.find("player_front"), true), getPlayerAnimations()); } private static Animation[] getPlayerAnimations () { ArrayList <Animation> animations = new ArrayList <Animation> (); animations.add(new Animation(Spritesheet.find("player_front"), true)); animations.add(new Animation(Spritesheet.find("player_back"), true)); animations.add(new Animation(Spritesheet.find("player_left"), true)); animations.add(new Animation(Spritesheet.find("player_right"), true)); return animations.toArray(new Animation[animations.size()]); } }
Is there a better way to do these things now?

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Posted: 2019-01-04 22:06:10
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
As discussed in the ~~~~pull request containing the recent changes to the resources api, the syntax is now ~~~~Resources.spritesheets().get("some-sprite").

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Posted: 2019-01-04 22:19:57
User: Dmartin42 [] (age: 1435 days 🔥; posts: 36)}
nightm4re

If one is making a plat-former, is there a better way to do this or do you recommend another way? Also, in your tutorial, you mentioned that one only needed sprites that were left or right as the animation controller would flip them for us. How do you do that?

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Posted: 2019-01-12 14:03:53
User: steffen [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1568 days 🔥; posts: 100)}
Dmartin42 For your code snippet above, I assume, that you have a custom animation controller that doesn't inherit from the ~~~~CreatureAnimationController. This controller is the one that has the "flip" option implemented in it. When inheriting from it, you can specify the constuctor parameter ~~~~boolean useFlippedSpritesAsFallback and the base implementation will automatically do "its magic".
In general, this logic is purely based on naming conventions of the sprites. The sprite name needs to be in the format of
~~~~{SPRITE-NAME}-idle-{DIRECTION}.png
~~~~{SPRITE-NAME}-walk-{DIRECTION}.png
If you provide something like ~~~~player-idle-left.png and enable ~~~~useFlippedSpritesAsFallback, the ~~~~CreatureAnimationContoller will automatically create ~~~~player-idle-right.png for you and vice versa (right -> left).

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Posted: 2019-01-23 00:04:52
User: Dmartin42 [] (age: 1435 days 🔥; posts: 36)}
steffen
Quick question:
My sprite is still not flipping despite my correct naming convention. What more do I need to do to get it to work? Also, where in your platformer game do you specify its flipping mechanic? Here is my code:

private Player1() { super("player"); setName("Player 1"); setFacingDirection(Direction.LEFT); this.addController(new CreatureAnimationController<>(this,true)); // CreatureAnimationController AN = this.getController(CreatureAnimationController.class); this.addController(new PlatformingMovementController<>(this));
And my naming convention in the utiLiti editor is: "player-walk-right."
At first glance, I thought I should add a .png to the end, but that does not seem to work either. Here is my GitHub: https://github.com/Dmartin42/PlatformerTest/tree/master/PlatformerT/Resources/sprites. Anyways, please let me know your thoughts. Thank you.

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Posted: 2019-01-24 22:00:58
User: steffen [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1568 days 🔥; posts: 100)}
Dmartin42 I just checked out your repository. The problem is on line 84 in your ~~Player1 class.
~~```java~~setSpritePrefix("player_right");```` You need to remove that line because you essentially overwrite the ~~spritePrefixwith a different value. The prefix in your case is just "player" which is already set in the constructor when calling:```java private Player1() {
super("player");
...````
Oh and by the way, a few other suggestions:

1. You don't need to set another ~~~~CreatureAnimationController instance. The base class ~~~~Creature already does that in its constructor.
2. You might want to remove the empty spaces from the name of your tileset ~~Kingdom Castle - By VicPlay. In future versions, we'll support only characters that are allowed in an~~URI.
3. In case you want to bundle you game later on, you should consider, adding your ~~~~Resources folder as Source Folder, so you won't have to explicitly add all these files to the ~~~~.jar