Animation in Construct2?

I'm new to Construct2 and i'm trying to figure out what the best approach is to animation in Construct2.

I have an animation I made of a tank rolling on the battlefield. Now I know I can position animated elements where I want and duplicate, scale and rotate them. Can I also animate these properties in Construct2?

The animation is for a cut-scene where the tanks fire at each other.

The free version of Construct2 doesn't have any animation tools I can find. Is all animation in Construct2 done with spritesheets and image sequences? No animating op properties like position, scale and rotation?

There's no keyframe or timeline animation, if that's what you mean, but you can certainly animation rotation, scale and position by using events to manipulate the angle, size and movement behaviours respectively.

If you use containers and have more of the same sprite it should work with just a few events.

GeometriX

I was indeed looking for keyframe/timeline animation.

TheNormalGeek

I made it work with some events like you said. I'll have to test a bit if this is a practical way of doing cut-scene animation.

If anyone has done some cut-scene animation i'm curious to know what approach you have taken.

Haven't tried them, but rexrainbow did a bunch of plugin to deal with timing and sequencing stuff, like this one

Check Spine at http://esotericsoftware.com/

Right now, I think the only way to import the animation in Construct from there is to export the frames individually but in the stretch goals of their just ended kickstarter campaign, a JS runtime was specified. Hopefully this will allow for an easy integration...

Thanks roberto, nice software.

There is Spriter too.

In the final part of the build a shoot them up tutorial, I show how to make some "animation" of the Boss coming to the middle of the screen.

lemo I'll take a look at those.

Most of the animation I do is in Blender, I render to a PNG image sequence then import them into Construct2.