Sprite destruction as an event and checking status of a sprite (destroyed vs active)

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#1

Hi,

I am a rookie with makecode so if this question has been asked and answered I apologize. I have 2 questions;

  1. I’m looking for a way to have an action when a sprite is destroyed. For example, if a specific sprite is destroyed I want to change a variable to a certain value. I haven’t seen any blocks that would allow me to do that. Thoughts?

  2. I’m looking for a way to check the status of a sprite (whether it is destroyed or active) but can’t seem to find anyway to do that. Thoughts?

Thanks for any help you can give,

Paul

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#2

In Sprites:
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Section Lifecycle:
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There is the on destroyed sprite of kind {Kind}.

There is an extension by @jwunderl called arcade-sprite-util, which you can import with this URL:

As the description says, it has a few utility functions for sprites, and is especially helpful if you don’t want to deal with trigonometry as it abstracts some of that too.

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The first block in the Sprite Utils category returns a boolean depending on whether a sprite is destroyed or not.

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION
I have made a GitHub repo which lists a bunch of extensions like Joey’s here. I try to update it with new extensions ASAP but it’s often behind because I’m busy. :confused:

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#3

here is some code

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#4

Thanks. I will try that extension.

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#5

ALWAYS reference the two sprite variables in the overlap event, i.e. ‘sprite’ & ‘otherSprite’. If you have multiple enemies, mySprite would only point to the last enemy added to the game. So you should destroy ‘otherSprite’. :+1:

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