How do you change a spritesheet at runtime?

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ichbintobias2

Hello everyone, for my current project I need to manually change the used spritesheet at runtime. I tried playing around with the values of the @AnimationInfo annotation as well as the setSpritesheetName method.

Removing the entity alltogether and replacing it with another one is also something I thought of but I had no success with this as it is not possible to add entites that are not known to game.litidata at runtime (I think?).

How would you go about this?

nightm4re

So basically you're trying to play an animation on an Entity, am I getting that right?
First, you need to add an Animation to the EntityAnimationController of your Entity.
Then, you can simply let the animation play as shown in the example below.

Creature myCreature = new Creature("spritesheetName");
String animationName = "creatureDance";
myCreature.animations().add(new Animation(Resources.spritesheets().get(animationName), true));
myCreature.animations().play(animationName);

ichbintobias2

Yes, basically Currently I have two entities on my screen that are accessed via static methods and I wanted to make it seem like one was replaced by a new one, kinda hard to explain.
However, as it turns out, I was thinking waay too complicated and using animations is the obvious way to go here, especially because the entities should become animated in the future anyways.

Sadly, I couldn't manage getting it to work. I created a method called set() which is intended to replace the existing Singleton-Entity with another one. It looks like this:

However, it does nothing. The instance and animationName objects will be set correctly but no animation plays. I thought that re-setting the instance possibly caused a problem of the screen and the background code not talking about the same instance anymore, if that makes sense, but as I cut the constructor and used a setter instead, nothing changed.

I also tried adding the animation to the constructor and only calling the play() method from other classes but it didn't help either. At this point I don't know what to try anymore, do you have another idea what I could do or what the problem might be?