To kill() a Sprite before kill animation?

[mraak]

Usually an object has an animation for the dying phase, maybe a second of explosion, or fading out. However when you call enemy.kill() it disappears completely from display, hence there can't be any dying animation played if the object is not visible.

 

Is it therefore a best practice to have the dying animation outside the sprite that you're killing, place it on the correct coordinate and play it? 

 

 

enemyDying.x = enemy.x;

enemyDying.y = enemy.y;

enemyDying.animations.play("die");

 

enemy.kill();

 

 

 

 

[jpdev]

When you add the animation, take the animation object reference and set killOnComplete to true.

Then just play the animation, don't call kill yourself.

 

From the docs (http://docs.phaser.io/Phaser.Animation.html):

  Properties: Name Type Description killOnComplete boolean

Should the parent of this Animation be killed when the animation completes?

[mraak]

But the problem is that tween doesn't have killOnComplete, I guess I can kill()  explicitly in an onComplete event.