AUTO Delete Sprite after last frame of animation

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Rudders

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Posted: 24th Feb 2012 08:33

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Hi all, just thought I would ask if anyone knows whether it is possible to auto delete a sprite when the last frame of animation has occurred?

The PlaySprite animation would have to be 'non-looping' and when the last frame had played the sprite is deleted..

I guess this would require a parameter in the PlaySprite command i.e. PlaySprite(spriteID,20,0,1,10,1) where the last digit, a 1 in this case indicates Delete Sprite or 0 do not delete.

This would be a massive benefit, preventing the need to check for when a sprite has finished animating before deleting.. such as in a explosion. With a small number of sprites you can run through a loop checking your 'playing' sprites to test for last frame, but with a large number of sprites it becomes a heavy overhead...

Any Ideas? If not possible, is this worth suggesting?

Rudders

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Rudders

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Posted: 24th Feb 2012 08:57

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Rudders again, it just occured to me that it would be better to have the 'animation loop' parameter (third parameter) able to set as follows:

0 = Play Once
1 = Loop
2 = Delete after last frame

This would keep the command compatible with existing code.

Just an idea?

Rudders

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kamac

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Posted: 24th Feb 2012 12:15

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You can do it this way:

(Put this into the main loop)

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if GetSpriteExists(spritenumber)
 if GetSpriteCurrentFrame(spritenumber) = GetSpriteFrameCount(spritenumber)
  DeleteSprite(spritenumber)
 endif
endif

This will a) check if the sprite exists.
b) Check if current sprite frame is equal to the last frame.
c) Delete it if both conditions match.

That's it!

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Rudders

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Posted: 24th Feb 2012 20:09

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Thanks for the reply, I already use this but with hundreds of sprites to test a For / Next loop is required to check each one. this is slow and therefore my question about an 'Auto Delete' option.

Where do we submit 'Suggestions' for future developemnt, does anyone know?

Rudders

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