How to make menu background animation from sprite sheet

[Davrozz]

Hi all,

I have looked up many tutorials and forum posts on this subject, but I just cannot get this working.
I now have an image as background, but I want it to be an animation. I have the following spreadsheet:

I have tried adding an “animation” component to my Background in the following scene:

But it just doesn’t show up anywhere. Any ideas as to how I can have this sequence as an animation background?

Thanks in advance

[Kurt-Dekker]

It should just trivially work. First get the image displaying a single sprite, size it up with aspect ratio, fit it to your canvas, nail down the top/bottom anchors, etc.

Save that scene, then make an animator on the root, select the Image, press RECORD in the animator window, then:

• slide your time scale to where you want
• drag the sprite into the image
• slide time scale ahead
• repeat the above until you’re out of sprites.

If it ever misbehaves, reload the original scene, destroy the animator and animation and restart. It should be like 60 seconds max so don’t get hung up on fixing it if something goes wrong, just redo it.

[Davrozz]

@Kurt-Dekker

It should just trivially work. First get the image displaying a single sprite, size it up with aspect ratio, fit it to your canvas, nail down the top/bottom anchors, etc.

Save that scene, then make an animator on the root, select the Image, press RECORD in the animator window, then:

• slide your time scale to where you want
• drag the sprite into the image
• slide time scale ahead
• repeat the above until you’re out of sprites.

If it ever misbehaves, reload the original scene, destroy the animator and animation and restart. It should be like 60 seconds max so don’t get hung up on fixing it if something goes wrong, just redo it.

That did the trick, thanks!