Sprite Animation is so fast !

[montaserrqasem]

Hello World,

I started learning Corona yesterday and I am very noob here so please go easy on me!

I have a problem with animating a sprite sheet the animation works, but the animation speed is very very fast and I don’t know why it’s fast like this.

Can you please tell me what went wrong?

I am using the jungle-cat example and here’s my code:

local centerX = display.contentCenterX local centerY = display.contentCenterY local options = { width = 512, height = 256, numFrames = 8, sheetContentWidth = 2048, sheetContentHeight = 512 } local mySheet = graphics.newImageSheet("sprites-cat-running.png", options); local sequenceData = { {name = "normalRun", start = 1, count = 8, loopCount = 800}} local animation = display.newSprite(mySheet, sequenceData) animation.x = centerX animation.y = centerY animation:setSequence("normalRun") animation:play() animation = nil

[thomas6]

time _^(optional)

Number. This is the time (in milliseconds) for the entire sequence to animate. If not specified, then the per-frame animation rate will be based on the frame rate of your app.

https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/display/newSprite.html#sequencedata-required

[montaserrqasem]

I honestly tried to play with this parameter and tried to set it on 1 and 1000000000 and it didn’t change the animation speed!

[thomas6]

No worries, I believe you!

Try setting it to something more realistic like 1000 to 5000. It’s in milliseconds, so 1 would still be blazingly fast of course.

[cyberparkstudios]

are you sure you are not confusing the ‘loopCount’ with the ‘time’ parameter thomas6 refers to… because loopCount 800 makes me think that you think that is ‘time’.

I could be wrong, but 800 for loop count seems out of the ordinary … add     time = 1000  

adding time parameter here just before loopCount

{name = “normalRun”, start = 1, count = 8,   time = 1000,   loopCount = 800}

[montaserrqasem]

I also tried that!

It’s weird and I am freaking out! because my code is very simple and should work perfectly, I have seen tutorials and their code looks exactly like mine!

Is the number of the frames in the sheet effects this ? does that mean that I have to have more frames in the picture? because I only have 8 frames.

[montaserrqasem]

OMG i copied cyberparkstudios’s code and it worked and i compared the 2 codes and found out that i’ve been writing times instead of time!!

I am realy sorry guys… please forgive me for the trouble!

[cyberparkstudios]

most common mistakes, especially at first are

misspelling, typos, missing or wrong parameters

and…

scope

just my opinion.  keep at it, you will experience a lot more such oversights,… just don’t let it discourage you.  Corona forum is a good place to get help.

best of luck in your coding adventures.

[thomas6]

Hey! Don’t worry about it at all! I think the last time I had a problem I sent about a hundred posts, before discovering it was just a wi-fi problem!

The forum’s here to help, and sometimes that means discovering a typo.

Keep it up!

[montaserrqasem]

Thanks, guys really!! you’re the best

[thomas6]

time _^(optional)

Number. This is the time (in milliseconds) for the entire sequence to animate. If not specified, then the per-frame animation rate will be based on the frame rate of your app.

https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/display/newSprite.html#sequencedata-required

[montaserrqasem]

I honestly tried to play with this parameter and tried to set it on 1 and 1000000000 and it didn’t change the animation speed!

[thomas6]

No worries, I believe you!

Try setting it to something more realistic like 1000 to 5000. It’s in milliseconds, so 1 would still be blazingly fast of course.

[cyberparkstudios]

are you sure you are not confusing the ‘loopCount’ with the ‘time’ parameter thomas6 refers to… because loopCount 800 makes me think that you think that is ‘time’.

I could be wrong, but 800 for loop count seems out of the ordinary … add     time = 1000  

adding time parameter here just before loopCount

{name = “normalRun”, start = 1, count = 8,   time = 1000,   loopCount = 800}

[montaserrqasem]

I also tried that!

It’s weird and I am freaking out! because my code is very simple and should work perfectly, I have seen tutorials and their code looks exactly like mine!

Is the number of the frames in the sheet effects this ? does that mean that I have to have more frames in the picture? because I only have 8 frames.

[montaserrqasem]

OMG i copied cyberparkstudios’s code and it worked and i compared the 2 codes and found out that i’ve been writing times instead of time!!

I am realy sorry guys… please forgive me for the trouble!

[cyberparkstudios]

most common mistakes, especially at first are

misspelling, typos, missing or wrong parameters

and…

scope

just my opinion.  keep at it, you will experience a lot more such oversights,… just don’t let it discourage you.  Corona forum is a good place to get help.

best of luck in your coding adventures.

[thomas6]

Hey! Don’t worry about it at all! I think the last time I had a problem I sent about a hundred posts, before discovering it was just a wi-fi problem!

The forum’s here to help, and sometimes that means discovering a typo.

Keep it up!

[montaserrqasem]

Thanks, guys really!! you’re the best