Triggering events in levels

[Sawyer]

I've managed to import a 2D side-scrolling tilemap into Phaser.  My question is, whats the most efficient way to go about triggering events at certain points of the level? For example, say I wanted to show a particle near the end of the level.

 

The idea I had in mind, was to put in a transparent object layer into my tilemap and use the overlap detection to trigger this.  Would this be the recommended way to go about things?

 

If so, could someone give me a quick walkthrough of doing this?

 

I've created the object layer in Tiled and inserted the tiles into my map.

[drhayes]

That's the approach I took. I have a sprite named "InvisibleSwitch" that has a property called "target". When the player collides with the switch it calls the "invoke" method on the "target".

 

All of the switches are in a switchesGroup which runs overlap checks in my state's update method.

[DonFrag]

I'm thinking this:

using tiled you can put objects at certain positions with the propertie trigger and bomb by example.

then in phaser you load all objects from tilemap. now you have a list with triggers, their position and what kind of sprite or elment you should put. like 'Bomb'.

[Sawyer]

Thanks for the answers guys, I've went with this method of doing it.

 

Just trying to figure out how to get an overlap detection working with p2 physics

[DonFrag]

Try overlap using overlap functión of sprite class.or rectangle

[Sawyer]

Thanks DonFrag, didn't think it was quite that simple.  Still have a few issues to workaround but I've just bought InterPhase so I'll stop with all the newbie questions

[drhayes]

Don't worry about the newbie questions; everyone was a newbie once.