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A-Frame Spritesheet Component

Animated spritesheet support for A-Frame.

Demo / Using spritesheets

Spritesheets are a common way to play pre-rendered animation. This component allows you to load up a spritesheet image to an a-image element and easily control its animation. It allows usage of two types of spritesheet formats:

Rows and Cols

A grid representing all frames of the animation. All of the frames must be of the same dimensions, and the animation index is assumed to be scanned left to right, top to bottom. If your last frame is not the one on the bottom right, you'll have to specify the index of the last frame using the lastFrame property.

JSON data format

The spritesheet image file can be made more compact by using a dictionary automatically generated with TexturePacker. This will help reduce file size.

Browser

Install and use by directly including the browser files:

<head>
  <title>My A-Frame Scene</title>
  <script src="https://aframe.io/releases/0.5.0/aframe.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/aframe-spritesheet-component/dist/aframe-spritesheet-component.min.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
  <a-scene>
    <!-- rows/cols format-->
    <a-image src="https://github.com/EkoLabs/aframe-spritesheet-component/raw/master/spritesheet.png" sprite-sheet="cols:8; rows: 3; progress: 0;"></a-image>
    <!-- json format -->
    <a-image src="https://github.com/EkoLabs/aframe-spritesheet-component/raw/master/spritesheet.png" sprite-sheet="dataUrl: spritesheet.json; progress: 0;" ></a-image>
  </a-scene>
</body>

npm

Install via npm:

npm install @ekolabs/aframe-spritesheet-component

Then require and use.

require('aframe');
require('aframe-spritesheet-component');

API

Property	Description	Default Value
progress	A value between 0 and 1 that represents animation progression. the index of the animation frame is calculated from this attribute. Used if no frameIndex or frameName specified	0
frameIndex	Explicit index of the animation frame to use. Used if no frameName specified	null
frameName	Explicit name of the animation frame to use, if using dataUrl	null
cols	number of cols in the spritesheet image (not needed if using dataUrl)	1
rows	number of rows spritesheet image (not needed if using dataUrl)	1
firstFrame	index of the first frame of the animation, ordered left to right starting at the first row	0
lastFrame	index of the last frame of the animation, ordered left to right starting at the first row . If not specified and not using the JSON format, value is `rows * cols - 1`	null
cloneTexture	if using separate instances of the same image, set this to true	false
dataUrl	If using a JSON format, url pointing to the json file	null

Acknowledgment

Walking pig sprite taken from glitchthegame.com, under a Public Domain Dedication license.

Interesting bit of Trivia: Tiny Speck, the company behind the now-defunct Glitch game is now actually Slack!

Author

Developed by Opher Vishnia of Eko

License

Apache 2

EkoLabs / aframe-spritesheet-component

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