Animating a Group of Sprites

Phaser 3
1

Hello everyone,
it’s been a while since i’ve been trying to figure out how to animate a sprite inside a group.
I’ve looked over the internet and all the solutions dont seem to work for me: the sprite do not change the frame and sticks to just the first one as the animation does not start. I do not get any kind of error so i cannot figure out how to fix this.

I’ll paste my code and what i’m trying to do, if you could help me it would be great.

//create
bullets=game.add.group();
bullets.enableBody = true;
bullets.physicsBodyType = Phaser.Physics.ARCADE;
weapon = game.add.weapon(20, ‘bullet’)
weapon.bullets.setAll(‘scale.x’, 1.5);
weapon.bulletSpeed=400;
bullets.callAll(‘animations.add’, ‘animations’, ‘uku’, [0,1,2,3,4], 24, true);

//update
if ( fireButton.isDown)
{
player.animations.play(‘fire’);
bullets.callAll(‘play’, ‘animations’, ‘uku’);
game.time.events.add(400, function (){weapon.fire ();});

}

2

Because you’re setting it in the update function the player animation is constantly starting as long as that button is down. You need to set a flag to play the animation only one time, and reset the flag after your animation is complete.

3

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately im new to javascritp and coding in general so i do not know very well how to do this. I can guess it’s a simple variable that turn false or true based on the animation process. am i right? if not, could you please type a quick example of it? thanks a lot

4

I think bullets is empty (no sprites), so it has nothing to animate.

weapon.bullets is a different group.