: What format should animations be in for Spritekit / Swift? Our graphic designer created a character for an iOS game built with Swift and SpriteKit. While she has created animated GIFs before,

@Turnbaugh909

SpriteKit is slightly unusual in 2D game engines in that it does all its own texture packing.

SpriteKit desires a .png sequence.

What this means, when creating sequenced image animations, is that you're best off exporting each frame of your .gif animation as a unique image, with a sequenced naming convention from 0, through to the frame count.

So your frames should look like this:

fileName0000.png
fileName0001.png
fileName0002.png
fileName0003.png
fileName0004.png
etc.


Then drag these files into Xcode's project panel, at the top level, and create a group once they're dragged in, to contain them.

Xcode/SpriteKit will then package these as a texture, and optimise the storage and loading.

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