Support basic sprite animations like rotate, flicker, disappear, etc.

[akrokho]

I think that you need to add basic animations for sprites (rotation, flicker, disappearance, periodic motion, etc.). The first question is - is it necessary? Interested in your opinion (yes or no).

[pvcraven]

Some of these should just be programmed. Probably fade, rotation, periodic motion. We might need examples showing clearly how to do it.

Frame-by-frame animation should be better supported. Also, I'd like to see the animations specified in the Tiled Map Editor load by default.

[akrokho]

I used to work with cocos2d library. On my view in it implemented very convenient system animations (http://python.cocos2d.org/doc/programming_guide/actions.html). To implement a similar system for the Sprite class, it seems to me quite simple (add a list of animations and implement the update_animations method). The only thing I do not know if I will not be accused of plagiarism)))

[akrokho]

I attach an archive with an example of the implementation of simple animations. The implementation is "raw" but working. I will be glad to hear criticism and suggestions for improvement.

[akrokho]

animations.zip

[pvcraven]

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