Detaching Sprite from Group so tweens don't affect it

[alvatar]

Hi!

 

I'm trying to figure out how to detach a sprite from a Group.

 

Currently you add it with the group as a two-step process:

1) Create the Sprite

2) Add it to the group: group.add(sprite)

 

But if I want to detach it from the group, so I can handle it individually, I have no other option than "destroy", which removes the Sprite.

Setting the parent to null doesn't work either.

The objective is that when a specific condition is met, the tween that is applied to all elements in the group as a whole doesn't apply to this particular sprite.

 

Thank you!

 

 

[Heppell08]

Can you not use:

sprite.group.remove(sprite);

[alvatar]

That's actually removing the Sprite and it doesn't render any longer.

Plus, is giving me this error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'visible' of undefined

[Heppell08]

Because it is killing the sprite on removal. You need to find a way to create it again at the time needed. It really depends on the set up you're trying to achieve but this post may also help you...

 

http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/2020-remove-element-from-group/

[rich]

Move it to another Group:

group.remove(sprite);group.add(sprite);

Remember that World is a Group. So you can do world.add(sprite) quite happily, which will keep it on the display list and rendering.

 

Removing a child from a Group does not destroy or kill it, but it WILL stop rendering if you don't add it back onto the display list somewhere.

[alvatar]

Great! That was what I was looking for. I wasn't aware that world was a group.

 

Thanks!