Blinking Tile

[fubeca6]

Good Evening,

 

I'm trying to create a blinking tile. Here's what I have so far:

function create() {	this.timer = game.time.create(false);	this.timer.loop(1000, updateCounter, this);	this.timer.start();}function updateCounter() {	if (this.burn) {		this.burn.kill();	} else {		createBurn();	}}function createBurn() {	this.burn = game.add.sprite(224, 352, 'burn');	game.physics.enable(this.burn, Phaser.Physics.ARCADE);	this.burn.body.immovable = true;}

However, when I run this, it simply creates the tile over and over without ever killing it  -____-   I've toyed around a lot with the Phaser Timer examples, etc. but haven't been able to get it quite right.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks

[Dumtard]

You shouldn't be adding a new sprite every time, you can just call Sprite.revive() to bring a dead sprite back.

Also depending on your goal for this sprite a better approach may be to create an animation for the sprite and run that.

[fubeca6]

Thanks Dumtard, that did it!  My overall code looks like this now (for anyone else with a similar problem):

function create() {	this.burn = game.add.sprite(224, 352, 'burn');	game.physics.enable(this.burn, Phaser.Physics.ARCADE);	this.burn.body.immovable = true;	this.timer = game.time.create(false);	this.timer.loop(1000, updateCounter, this);	this.timer.start();} function updateCounter() {	if (this.burn.exists) {		this.burn.kill();	} else {		this.burn.revive();	}}