anim8 - initializing bullet animations during runtime

[JohnnyC]

Right now I'm struggling with a good way to manage initializing different bullet animations during runtime using anim8. Right now I have an animations table that has all my animations for bullets that is loaded at the beginning.

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{
redBullet = anim8.newAnimation(b(3,8), 0.1),
redFire = anim8.newAnimation(b2('1-4',1),0.2):flipV(),
yellowGlobe = anim8.newAnimation(b(13,11),1)
etc...
}

And whenever an enemy creates a new bullet it runs a function called getAnim(name). Name is a variable that is passed by the enemy when it creates a new bullet.

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if anim == 'redFire' then
    bullet.animation = animations.redBullet
elseif anim == 'redBullet' then
    bullet.animation = animations.redFire
elseif anim...etc...

It works but I feel like it is not a very good method of doing this, it looks very sloppy. Especially if I eventually have like 20+ bullet designs. Also the only way I can get this to work is if the animations table is global. It just seems like there is an obvious solution I'm missing.

[raidho36]

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bullet.animation = animations[ name ]

[JohnnyC]

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bullet.animation = animations[ name ]

hahaha
I knew there was a more obvious way. It's pretty crushing how obvious it turned out to be.
Thanks.