Woot! I am so excited to be able to finally release this to the public. Panayoti from GamePoetry.com and I have been working hard on this for the past 9 months or so ( on and off ) This was originally sparked off by my reading of his request for help: Improving Performance With Animated Bitmaps. I said to myself, “Hey I’ve basically already done all of this!” So after talking over the vision of the animation system for a while I set out to create a robust and extensible API. It only took a day or so to get the bulk of it coded, however over the last few months we have been using it in projects so that we can test / refine it further. Finally it is to the point that we can both happily release it to you guys!

So without further delay, I now introduce you to Ginger :

Features :

• Extremely fast and optimized animations
• Set the rotation precision, and each frame is pre cached for speed
• Attach an event dispatch to any frame of animation
• Adjustable frame rate
• Set your own offset for each frame of animation
• Queue up multiple animations
• Import Tile sheets and convert to an animation
• *NEW – 9/10/09* Import MovieClips, Sprites, and Bitmaps and convert to an animation

Download the example files from SVN here.
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Download in .ZIP format here.

Future Plans

• Create a real time loader for larger animation files
• Optimizations to rotated animations
• Tools for building animations using XML format
• Tools for loading MovieClips / swfs – Done!
  
• Easy integration with my game framework