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I am trying to work with collisions. I can get the collison to register with the code. I then desire to place another sprite over the sprite that has had the collison at the same coordianted. Tank than tank blownup (two sprites). How do I get rid of the first sprite Tank. Can I then reload the first sprite later??

Actually two questions. Thanks for any help.

With the SPRITE command you can use exactly the same sprite number but change the image that it shows (it's how we make animated sprites the old way... without using the CREATE ANIMATED SPRITE command).

Syntax: SPRITE SpriteNumber,x,y,ImageNumber

@Grog Grueslayer, Nice snippet, but it might be a tad excessive for a tank blowing up.

@Bobmarilyn, Despite the fact that what I just said might have seemed like criticism, Grog's method is actually really good. You could either use that or you could have the explosion sprite position over the tank sprite's current location first, then either delete the sprite or move it to some obscure co-ordinate that's off-screen if, for some reason, you don't mind it being kept in memory.

Or HIDE SPRITE

@ Tom0001:

It's just a quick example of how changing the image number but keeping the same sprite works. All he really needs from that code snip is the SPRITE command with the image number as a variable.


@ BobMarilyn:

Lets say you use TImage for the current image number of the tank sprite. When you draw that tank use only one SPRITE command and just change the variable TImage when you want to replace that normal looking tank to the blown up tank (SPRITE 1,PlayerX,PlayerY,TImage).

Image numbers:
1 = Normal Tank
2 = Blown Up Tank
3-10 = Explosion

How to order it:
1. TImage=1 (shows normal tank)
2. Show explosion animation (using a different sprite than the tank)
3. TImage=2 (shows blown up tank)
4. Move explosion sprite off screen


@ Everybody:

I felt I should add the new method for animating since I mentioned the other snip was the old method but mainly because it's much better and more efficient. It only uses one image rather than however many you need for all the frames and we don't have to grab them manually and make our own timer.

This does exactly the same thing as my previous code snip: