Animations

Phaser 4 -- Sprite Animations

AnimationManager (global), AnimationState (per-sprite), creating animations from spritesheets and atlases, playing/pausing/chaining, animation events, frame callbacks.

Related skills: ../sprites-and-images/SKILL.md, ../loading-assets/SKILL.md

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Quick Start

// In preload -- load a spritesheet
this.load.spritesheet('explosion', 'explosion.png', {
    frameWidth: 64,
    frameHeight: 64
});

// In create -- define a global animation
this.anims.create({
    key: 'explode',
    frames: this.anims.generateFrameNumbers('explosion', { start: 0, end: 11 }),
    frameRate: 24,
    repeat: 0
});

// Play it on a sprite
const sprite = this.add.sprite(400, 300, 'explosion');
sprite.play('explode');

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Core Concepts

AnimationManager vs AnimationState

Phaser has two distinct animation objects: