How to create a simple 2d animation?

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I’ve been looking through a lot of 2D animation guides and a lot of them are quite complex.

I can’t seem to find anything about how to do the very basics. My goal is to make a a burning effect from a jet engine(2d). There’s no rotations or anything like that. It’s going to be a very simple side scroller. I just need to add a little fire to the back as I press the move key.

Anyone know of some guides that cover something of this sort? Would love to start small before diving in to the deeper stuff.

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im just working through some simple 2d animation as well, for a simple platformer im doing.

have a wee look through a previous live session from Mike Geig. i know its related to a 2d character controller, but theres some good info in there. hope that helps a bit.

http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/2d/2d-controllers

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I’ll take a look, thanks. If you find anything interesting yourself feel free to share :smile:

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sorry forgot there is another one for top down 2d basics, if you have a look at 22 mins into it, Mike shows how to create sprite animation.
http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/live-training-archive/top-down-2d

if you cant get it, let me know and ill try and put something together over the next couple of days to try and help with some of the code ive being doing for my project. (be warned my code isnt elegant by any stretch :))

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For simple 2D animation, you can flip through the frames with a script, as seen here.

–Eric

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That is actually quite perfect for what I need. Easy to understand and implement. I do need to get on getting a more complex method down though as I’ll need it later in my game.

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Here’s the working C# code for Eric5h5’s link.

  public Sprite[] frames;
  float framesPerSecond = 10f;
  float timer = 0.0f;

SpriteRenderer spriteRender;

  timer = (timer + Time.deltaTime * framesPerSecond) % frames.Length;
  spriteRender = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
  spriteRender.sprite = frames[(int)timer];