Summary

The sprite animation system is now completely functional, with lots of room for growth and with support for custom Animation subclasses. In a professional game, these subclasses would be programmed by designers with Lua script code, allowing designers to make their own custom animations, and the job of the programmers essentially being done at this point with regard to the Animation and Sprite classes. But we aren’t getting into scripting, so feel free to create your own awesome new animation classes to see what interesting effects you can come up with! In the following hour, we will study one last subject related to sprites: z-index ordering. This will allow our sprites to draw over each other with some having higher priority than others.