How to animate Sprite Sheets in Godot using AnimationPlayer (beginner tutorial)

In this tutorial, we learn to use the AnimationPlayer node provided by Godot 3.2! AnimationPlayer is a really useful and intuitive tool for creating animations out of 2D sprite sheets. We'll also cover adding layers to a character that animate in sync with the body.

Our next video will dive a little deeper into more possibilities of this tool. I'll link it here as soon as that video is ready!

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*** Timestamps: ***

0:00:00: Intro
0:00:51: Creating the Character
0:02:05: Sprite Sheets in Godot
0:03:50: AnimationPlayer
0:04:45: Frame track
0:07:40: Adding a hat
0:09:30: Animating hat position
0:11:00: Toggling layers

[DrewConley]

Hey friends, this one is about one of my favorite tools in Godot: the AnimationPlayer! My next game has TONS of character animations in it, and this tool has helped me stay organized and enabled some really cool results.

Hope you enjoy the video. Can't wait to see the animations you make!

[NuclearDrone]

Great job explaining why the hat is useful to put as a separate node. I couldn't find any other videos explaining this core mechanic of 2D games where you need to change gear or sprite textures.

[KnoxEmDown]

Thank you for producing such a dense and useful tutorial. Real examples will always be best!

[robertd]

Thank you, I'm just starting out as a hobby and this was perfect explanation of the basic animation effects for pixel sprites.

[aguynamedwyatt]

I'm definitely subscribing. I've been trying to get into godot coding but haven't found a good tutorial, and this is the first one I've found. Thank you so much, I hope you get more subscribers and that this isn't the only thing you do. I hope you work for a good game company or other and that you make enough money to sustain yourself. I'm saying this because I really hate to see small youtubers who put lots of effort into videos and don't have many subs.

[gopherwithagun]

Hey. I just wanted to say that I really appreciated how clear this video was. I appreciate your use of examples and also trickling in information only when necessary rather than throwing the kitchen sink right at the start. I appreciated the clear structure.

[dreamhollow]

His walking animation looks like dancing.
Also great tutorial! Been looking for a reliable video on Godot animation, thank you sir!

[DrRumsmuggler]

You're good at this tutorial thing, subscribed

[isabellarozalinda]

I finally know how to add those animations I was searching 1 hour how to do this.you explain fast and good everything

[randompast]

Fantastic, well done, thanks for the tutorial!

[silvernode]

I finally found a channel that teaches me at a pace that works for me in a format that makes sense.

[MrSmith_]

Thanks for this Drew, it was really helpful.

[reactmagic]

Thanks for the video, it certainly helped me. However, I just want to point out that it is unnecessary to create a key for every frame of the animation. Instead, you can change the "update mode" for the track to "continuous", create a key for the last frame of the animation and the first frame of the animation, and the AnimationPlayer will automatically step through every frame of the animation while only specifying a key for the first and last frame.

When "update mode" is continuous, the player automatically moves between the values of the keys. For a short animation like this one it may not matter that much, but for an animation that is 20+ frames it may save a huge amount of time.

I think it should be the default for a new AnimationPlayer track, since it often saves a lot of time. Instead, the default is "discrete", which means the property value simply changes to the value specified by the key whenever that key is reached in the duration of the animation track.

[Maltebyte]

The loose hat was kinda cool also nice effect i liked it alot! Thanks for these videos!

[MCNeko]

This is 10 times easier than Unity...just...wow. Thank you SO MUCH for this tutorial!

[ahmasa]

Perfect explanation
Easy to understand

[phoenixastra]

so convenient for multiple outfit and accy games tysm!

[FrancoisSchnell]

Very cool, thanks, keep it up. Subed.

[archiewise]

Thanks i am making an RPG so this helps a lot

[SinrMax]

Drew I want to mention I am not sure if this is something youtube implemented or an option you have as a creator but when you mentioned the word "subscribe" the button next to your name had a little animation pretty cool!