Eel Animation

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Eel Animation

The eel animation process consisted of creating a character atlas based on a sprite sheet and utilising the GhostAnimationController class to produce animation.

Character Atlas

Implementation

Ghost Animation Controller

In this class the animations are initialised is responsible for playing animation when an event is triggered.

 @Override
  public void create() {
    super.create();
    animator = this.entity.getComponent(AnimationRenderComponent.class);
    entity.getEvents().addListener("wanderStart", this::animateWander);
    entity.getEvents().addListener("chaseStart", this::animateChase);

    //Eel animations for each direction
    entity.getEvents().addListener("fr", this::animateFrontRight);
    entity.getEvents().addListener("fl", this::animateFrontLeft);
    entity.getEvents().addListener("br", this::animateBackRight);
    entity.getEvents().addListener("bl", this::animateBackLeft);
  }

 void animateFrontLeft(){animator.startAnimation("fl");}
  void animateFrontRight(){animator.startAnimation("fr");}
  void animateBackRight(){animator.startAnimation("br");}
  void animateBackLeft(){animator.startAnimation("bl");}

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