how to animated sprite for cocos2d in ccz format - iphone

Question

According to this tutorial PVR images seem to be the best format for iOS sprites. However after creating a sprite sheet with Texturepacker and exporting out to this format I cannot get the animation to work in cocos2d.
According to the documentation here I should be using
[[CCSpriteFrameCache sharedSpriteFrameCache] addSpriteFramesWithFile:#"LuckyCompiled.plist"];
But neither the tutorial nor the documentation explain how to do animation, except for this. Which is what the code below is based on.
But this only places the base image onto the layer and does not animate.
CCSprite *sprite = [[CCSprite alloc]init];
sprite.position = ccp(player.contentSize.width/2+40, winSize.height/2+40);
// Obtain the shared instance of the cache
CCSpriteFrameCache *cache = [CCSpriteFrameCache sharedSpriteFrameCache];
// load the frames
[cache addSpriteFramesWithFile:#"LuckyCompiled.plist"];
// It loads the frame named "frame1.png".
// IMPORTANT: It doesn't load the image "frame1.png". "frama1.png" is a just the name of the frame
CCSpriteFrame *frame = [cache spriteFrameByName:#"lucky1.png"];
[sprite setDisplayFrame:frame];
[self addChild:sprite];
NSMutableArray *animFrames = [NSMutableArray array];
for(int i = 1; i < 10; i++) {
CCSpriteFrame *frame = [[CCSpriteFrameCache sharedSpriteFrameCache] spriteFrameByName:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"lucky%d.png",i]];
[animFrames addObject:frame];
}
NSLog(#"animaframes %#",animFrames);
CCAnimation *animation = [CCAnimation animationWithSpriteFrames:[NSArray arrayWithArray:animFrames]];
[sprite runAction:[CCAnimate actionWithAnimation:animation]];
Answer:
Needed to have a delay otherwise animation wasnt noticeable
[CCAnimation animationWithSpriteFrames:[NSArray arrayWithArray:animFrames]];
should have been (also no need to make is nsarray, mutable is fine)
[CCAnimation animationWithSpriteFrames:frames delay:0.1f];

Answer 1

Here is the code that I tried, it works fine.
CCSpriteFrameCache *frameCache = [CCSpriteFrameCache sharedSpriteFrameCache];
[frameCache addSpriteFramesWithFile:#"walkFrames.plist"];
player = [CCSprite spriteWithSpriteFrameName:#"f1.png"];
NSMutableArray *frames = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:8];
for (int i = 1; i < 9; i++) {
NSString *file = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"f%d.png", i];
CCSpriteFrame *frame = [frameCache spriteFrameByName:file];
[frames addObject:frame];
}
CCAnimation *walkAnim =[CCAnimation animationWithSpriteFrames:frames delay:0.1f];
CCAnimate *animate = [CCAnimate actionWithAnimation:walkAnim];
CCRepeatForever *rep = [CCRepeatForever actionWithAction:animate];
player.position = ccp(23, 285);
[player runAction:rep];
[self addChild:player];