Should I make a clock for every entity?

[Kain5056]

Hello everybody, I am quite new to SFML and programming in general, and I have a simple question to see if I undestand things right.

As I see in every tutorial, every time you want to animate an entity, you need to restart the clock after every animation cycle.

Does that mean that you need a seperate clock for every entity, or is there a way to use just one clock for all entities?

I have not found a Tutorial that specifies this issue yet, so I apologize if it is mentioned somewhere and I missed it.

Thank you in advance. 

[Nexus]

You don't need clocks for animations. You only need a single clock to measure the frame time, and pass that time to the animations.

You could also have a look at how I implemented animations in Thor: API documentation, bigger example. The animations take a sf::Time value and affect the sprite correspondingly.

[Kain5056]

Thanks for the help. :-) That's all I needed to know. :-)