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#1

Hey all

I’ve come from gamesalad to corona because gamesalad wasn’t powerful enough and couldn’t fill my needs and after searching around corona looked perfect. I already have one game on the app store from GS but it hasnt been doing so well…

The next game i plan to make is a top down shooter i cant reveal much more than that at the moment.

Just a few quick questions: whats the difference between sprite and an image? Can you animate an image? Can you add a physics body to a sprite?

thanks all

deadbeat

#2

In Corona SDK, an image is a single image.  We have a concept called an imageSheet which is multiple images in a single image file.  This imageSheet is the basis for sprites.  Sprites pull their individual frames for their animation from the imageSheet.

When you say “animate an image”, you can do things like move, scale, rotate, fade in and out individual images as well as sprites.  A single image however can’t have multi-frame animation, that’s what a sprite is for.   Yes, sprites can be physics bodies.

Rob

#3

In Corona SDK, an image is a single image.  We have a concept called an imageSheet which is multiple images in a single image file.  This imageSheet is the basis for sprites.  Sprites pull their individual frames for their animation from the imageSheet.

When you say “animate an image”, you can do things like move, scale, rotate, fade in and out individual images as well as sprites.  A single image however can’t have multi-frame animation, that’s what a sprite is for.   Yes, sprites can be physics bodies.

Rob