Sprites

• Sprites in Serpent are called CCSprite, in order to create a CCSprite, we call the static method CCSprite.create(), which takes a single argument and returns a CCSprite. CCSprite is a CCNode, so we can add it as a child node to other nodes!

• Example:

def MenuLayer_init(self, this):
    if not this.init(): return False
    winSize = CCDirector.get().getWinSize()
    sprite = CCSprite.create("<spriteName>.png") # Remember, this doesn't get sprites from spritesheets, we need a different method for that!
    sprite.setPosition(CCPoint(winSize.width / 2, winSize.height / 2)) # Place the sprite in the middle of the screen.
    return True

Sprites from Spritesheets

• It's pretty simple, instead of calling the static method CCSprite.create we call CCSprite.createWithSpriteFrameName, here's an example!

def MenuLayer_init(self, this):
    if not this.init(): return False
    sprite = CCSprite.createWithSpriteFrameName("GJ_arrow_01_001.png") # GJ_arrow_01_001.png is a sprite from the GJ_gamesheet_03.png spritesheet, though it does not matter!
    return True