Learning iPhone Game Development with Cocos2D 3.0

Time for action – animating the birds

Now that we have animation frames ready, we can animate our game objects. We're not going to make a hunter shoot in this chapter, so let's start with the bird.

1. Open the Bird.m file and import the following headers at the top:

   #import "cocos2d.h"
   #import "CCAnimation.h"

2. Then, add the animateFly method, below the initWithBirdType: method as follows:

   -(void)animateFly { //1 NSString *animFrameNameFormat; switch (self.birdType) { case BirdTypeBig: animFrameNameFormat = @"bird_big_%d.png"; break; case BirdTypeMedium: animFrameNameFormat = @"bird_middle_%d.png"; break; case BirdTypeSmall: animFrameNameFormat = @"bird_small_%d.png"; break; default: CCLOG(@"Unknown bird type, using small bird anim.!"); animFrameNameFormat ...