Destroy a sprite

[Chupup Games]

i have a sprite, that i want to destroy when the player touches it,

but i get this error:

 

Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'destroy'

this.dude = game.add.sprite(Math.floor(Math.random() * 480 + 100), -50, 'tiles');            this.dude.animations.add('float', [animFrame, animFrame + 1], 10, true);            this.dude.animations.play('float');            game.physics.enable(this.dude, Phaser.Physics.ARCADE);            this.dude.body.velocity.x = -50;            this.dude.body.velocity.y = 30;            this.dudeDead = false;                            if (this.dude.body.y > 320) {                this.dudeDead = true;                this.dude.destroy();

[Heppell08]

Is it not possibly because you called it this.dude? Maybe it might need to be this.this.dude.destroy(); because the namespace you given already includes this.

[Natman]

I'm pretty sure you should be using

this.dude.kill();

instead of

this.dude.destroy();

I'm not 100% sure because I'm very new to Phaser, but this is the way it was described in the Making Your First Game tutorial. I think that will fix your problem.

[Chupup Games]

@Natman

 

in the API it says that kill() don't frees up the memory, it only makes the sprite invisible..anyway, destroy() should work

 

@Heppell08

 

i will give it a try, but i never see this.this before

[Chupup Games]

The kill method works, but i am still curious why destroy doesn't want to work...

[rich]

Actually it's a bug, sorry. It's fixed in the dev branch, but for now do this:

 

this.dude.body = null;

this.dude.destroy();

 

Basically it's trying to destroy the Arcade Physics Body, which doesn't have a destroy method, hence the error. Nulling the body first will stop it from trying to destroy it.

[Chupup Games]

ok, this works! Thank you!