Sprites - introduction:

If you are new in the 2D Game Development, you might not know what exactly Sprite is. Let`s clarify it a little bit. Lets introduce a brief Sprite Definition:

Sprite is a 2D Bitmap, positioned on the scene by [X, Y] coordinates.

In AndEngine sprite is an extension of the Entity. There is also more complex version of the sprite, allowing you to use tiled textures and animate, check Tiled and Animated Sprites.

1. Creating Sprites:

Sprite yourSprite = new Sprite(x, y, textureRegion, vertexBufferObjectManager);

• first and second parameter - sprite`s [X, Y] coordinates
• third parameter - ITextureRegion of the sprite (see loading resources)
• 四つ目のパラメータ - vertex buffer object manager, you will probably need most common one, which can be received by: mEngine.getVertexBufferObjectManager();

You can also specify width and height of the sprite in the constructor, but if you won`t, it will use default size of the texture region. Its worth to check available constructors to customise it even more.

2. Attaching Sprites:

anyEntity.attachChild(yourSprite);

3. More:

• detach entity:

  yourEntity.detachSelf();
  

• control visibility:

  yourSprite.setVisible(boolean);
  

• set rotation:

  yourSprite.setRotation(float);
  

• remove sprite - click.
• enable dithering - click.
• entity modifier - click.
• tiled & animated sprites - click.