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

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@PaulT123

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?

In Sprites:

Section Lifecycle:

There is the on destroyed sprite of kind {Kind}.

@PaulT123

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?

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

GitHub - jwunderl/arcade-sprite-util: A few utility functions for sprites

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.

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

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