Forums » Help » Any idea how to make an avatar system?

My initial thought would be to create a menu, which allows the player to select one from N different characters. And then load the corresponding entity.

This means that N different entities have to be coded.

Any shorter way to do this? (i.e swap the animSheets) ?

The "right" way to do it is to code the different entities (if they're different characters, you may find you want them to run at different speeds, or whatever, later on down the line).

However, it's much less work than it seems.

Your main character entity:

EntityCharacter = ig.Entity.extend({
    // ... entity code goes here ...
    animSheet: new ig.AnimationSheet( 'media/characters/default.png', 32,32),
    // rest of code goes here
});

Now the rest of your characters can just be:

EntityCharacterA = EntityCharacter.extend({
    animSheet: new ig.AnimationSheet( 'media/characters/A.png', 32,32),
});


EntityCharacterB = EntityCharacter.extend({
    animSheet: new ig.AnimationSheet( 'media/characters/B.png', 32,32),
});


EntityCharacterC = EntityCharacter.extend({
    animSheet: new ig.AnimationSheet( 'media/characters/C.png', 32,32),
});

So you define a new character with just three lines of code, and you have the advantage of being able to assign different characteristics, health values, etc. based on which one the player chooses.