Changing the sprite's graphic

[scutajar 1]

Just a quick question regarding changing a sprite's graphic while the game is running.

Before, this was done using the sprite's function loadGraphic. This doesn't exist anymore, and unless I'm missing something, I haven't found a suitable replacement in either Phaser.Sprite or PIXI.Sprite.

Any help would be appreciated

[scutajar 1]

I've managed a workaround by killing the existing sprite and creating a new sprite with the graphic I needed. Not exactly what I had in mine, but it works for now.

[Squize 1]

Yeah I was wondering if there's a gotoAndStop("frame") equivalent, and if it exists on Sprites or via the Animation class.

 

Squize.

[hackenstein 15]

You could use one sprite sheet and just change the current animation

[onedayitwillmake 8]

If PIXI was accessible, it seems you would simply be able to say

sprite.setTexture( PIXI.TextureCache[key] );

But phaser does not expose the PIXI object.

 

In a game I'm working on, I have to change the 'polarity' of an object, and it's represented by a different sprite.

And this can happen many times over and over, it'd be much easier to simply set the texture than to destroy and recreate a new sprite each time I wanted to do this.

 

Seems like a reasonable request

[Hsaka 33]

This is in the dev branch.

https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/commit/a7230aa769371c8f588893a2fb0517620e63f16f

[onedayitwillmake 8]

Oh, awesome!

[InsaneHero 17]

I don't have that branch checked out... anyone got comments on the efficiency of this approach?  (Is it light and suitable for frequent use, or cpu/gpu intensive and only good for between levels?)

[turnA 21]

I think loading a new graphic/change texture just to change sprite image is a bit overkill.

Like hackenstein said, you can load spritesheet image and change the frame of the Sprite as you need.

game.load.spritesheet('character', 'character.png', 60, 60);var character = game.add.sprite(0, 0, 'character');character.frame = 0; //Character idle imagecharacter.frame = 1; //Character jump image

[Mike 56]

In addition here is how i change the sprite size:

game.load.atlas('tiles', 'assets/textureAtlas/breakout.png', 'assets/textureAtlas/breakout.json');paddle = game.add.sprite(game.world.centerX, game.world.height - 48, 'tiles', 'paddle_big.png');

and then:

 

        if(isPaddleNerfed) {            paddle.frameName = "paddle_small.png";            //paddle.animations.play('paddle_small', 10, true);        } else {            paddle.frameName = "paddle_big.png";            //paddle.animations.play('paddle_big', 10, true);        }

 

this way you can even change a sprite animation and not only between two frames... and it depends on the need which is better 

[onedayitwillmake 8]

 

I think loading a new graphic/change texture just to change sprite image is a bit overkill.

Like hackenstein said, you can load spritesheet image and change the frame of the Sprite as you need.

game.load.spritesheet('character', 'character.png', 60, 60);var character = game.add.sprite(0, 0, 'character');character.frame = 0; //Character idle imagecharacter.frame = 1; //Character jump image

 

I disagree, since the texture is basically a reference to a PIXI.Texture instance changing which reference any sprite is using doesn't seem like it would be particularly intensive