Lab: Animated Character

If you have an engine in progress already, try to build this on top of that. It could save you some time later!

• Set up an Animation data type; it could store a vec of frame indices or rectangles (sections of the spritesheet) and a vec of frame timings, along with a boolean indicating whether this animation loops; or you could set it up another way (perhaps as a paperdoll animation, or even do both!).
• Create or find a spritesheet image, then set up at least three looping animations and one one-shot animation by constructing values of your Animation type and putting them into an array.
  • Or make a paperdoll animation

For full credit, do one of the following:

1. Animation Viewer:
   • Make it so that pressing left and right arrow keys cycle between different animations in your animation data.
   • Then, progress the animations over time; your animation data format should define how many frames an animation frame lasts for.
   • Finally, use the up and down arrow keys to increase or decrease a time scaling factor to make the animations run faster or slower.
   • Try to add other fun features: if you want to draw all the character's different animations side by side, or have animations automatically transition into other animations, or something else that might be useful or cool.
2. Animated Character:
   • Make your character move around in two dimensions with the arrow keys, or one dimension plus jumping
   • Have your character play different animations in different circumstances (accelerating either in or against the current direction of motion, falling, jumping, striking a cool pose, braking to a stop, et cetera)
   • Try to make it feel cool!