NewbieAsks: For Jumps, better to have animation or no?

[ggesterGamePro99]

I"m wondering, for jumps it it better to have animation or no animation at all?

LIke in mario games( mario 1 , mario 3, mario 2)...the jumps had no animation..it just changed to a single image..and then the character sprite would move up and down. but there was no actual animation of the character body.

Is this how i should do it?

what if i want to have animation? how do i make it so that it works and it looks good.

Should i allow the animation to run,, and then as the character is moved up in the Y coordinate..should i tell the program to pause the animation..and then when it comes down to almost near the ground..then tell it to animate again?

is that how?

[skydereign]

This is a personal preference. If you want to have an animation, do so. It is slightly harder to deal with an animated jump, but not by much.