Create animated sprite hiccup

[Treehugger]

Hi,

I'm working on my first game with phaser. In the game I have a create function where I've put the following line:

this.cookieTimer = this.game.time.events.loop(Phaser.Timer.SECOND * game.global.cookie_rate, this.createCookies, this);

The function createCookies will set another function in motion which has the line, which seems to be the problem:

var cookie = this.cookies.create(game.width,game.height-100,'gameassets','cookie1/cookie1');

Everytime it 'creates' and adds to the group (this.cookies), the screen is paused for 1 second and continues after that.

Is this a bug? Or am I doing something wrong?

Any thoughts? 

Many thanks,

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[Taleforge]

What do you want to see?

 

Are you just creating more and more cookies that will never disappear?

 

I think the Problem is, that you are creating sprites at runtime (in the update-loop).

You should create all needed sprites in the create function of your game state.

 

So you could "pre-create" some cookies that you can use in your game.

Also reuse not needed sprites - when a cookie disappeares from your game (gets killed or something like that), reuse that sprite for a new cookie.

 

See this example: http://examples.phaser.io/_site/view_full.html?d=games&f=tanks.js&t=tanks

The bullets of the player are handled that way (see "Our bullet group" and the fire-function)

 

hope this helps