You could loop through each frame of the spritesheet that belongs to a certain animation and change the texture of a image after a certain amount of time.

I don’t know how to do it the way you are explaining or the actual way I want to do it.  I need more of a coding explination than a verbal one.  I went to the cocos site and found a way to animate a sprite from a spritesheet: http://www.cocos2d-x.org/wiki/Sprite_Sheet_Animation. but, when I load it up; I get errors.  I assume the coding is meant for more experienced coders,   because I had to declare Sprite1 by doing the following: cocos2d::Sprite *Sprite1;  But it still gives errors on the following line of code: animFrames->addObject(frame); the error message is:  (base operand of '→' has non-pointer type ‘cocos2d::Vector<cocos2d::SpriteFrame*>’) how can I resolve this problem?  I copied and pasted my code below.

-----------------the code in the game Cpp file...  it also show where  the error is coming from in a comment next to the line of code making the error--------------------------------------

#include "GameScene.h"

#include "SimpleAudioEngine.h"

USING_NS_CC;

Scene *Game::createScene(){

                auto scene = Scene::create();

                auto layer = Game::create();

                scene->addChild(layer);

                return scene;

}

bool Game::init(){

                if(!Layer::init())return false;

                Size visibleSize = Director::getInstance()->getVisibleSize();

                Vec2 origin = Director::getInstance()->getVisibleOrigin(); 

                mySprite = Sprite::create("ghost.png");//cocos2d::Sprite *mySprite;set up in the header file.

                mySprite->setPosition(Vec2(visibleSize.width/2 + origin.x, visibleSize.height/2 + origin.y));

                this->addChild(mySprite);

                auto sprAction = MoveTo::create(3,Vec2(100,100));

                mySprite->runAction(sprAction);

                CocosDenshion::SimpleAudioEngine::getInstance()->playEffect("thunder.wav");

                //---------------sprite animation test START-------------------

                SpriteBatchNode* spritebatch = SpriteBatchNode::create("gremlin.png");

                SpriteFrameCache* cache = SpriteFrameCache::getInstance();

                cache->addSpriteFramesWithFile("gremlin.plist");

                cocos2d::Sprite *Sprite1;//********* I had to add to remove an error.*************

                Sprite1 = Sprite::createWithSpriteFrameName("gremlin_01.png");

                spritebatch->addChild(Sprite1);

                addChild(spritebatch);

                Vector<SpriteFrame*> animFrames(13);

                char str[100] = {0};

                for(int i = 1; i < 13; i++)

                {

                    sprintf(str, "gremlin_%02d.png", i);

                    SpriteFrame* frame = cache->getSpriteFrameByName( str );

                    animFrames->addObject(frame);//********************causes errors!!!****************************

                }

                Animation* animation = Animation::createWithSpriteFrames(animFrames, 0.3f);

                Sprite1->runAction( RepeatForever::create( Animate::create(animation) ) );

                //---------------sprite animation test END---------------------

                return true;

}

Try checking this video out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh5-7spFcDw