possible to get tile sprite?

[Elgan]

is it possible to get the sprite from a tile, and then animate, and destroy it?

 

pseudo code

{
tileSprite = getTIleSprite()

 

tileSprite.animate()

 

map.removeTile(x: number, y: number, layer: any);
}

[lewster32]

A TileSprite is an extension of a Sprite, and can be animated in the same way as a normal Sprite. If you want to get a specific tile the Tilemap object has a few methods to do that.

[Elgan]

Yes, but with the tile

 

returned from gettile()

Can you then turn a tile object into a sprite?

[lewster32]

Oh I see. I'm not sure you can turn a Tile object into a Sprite object directly (though it seems odd that you can't and I'm sure I saw somewhere that you can!) - you'd probably have to remove the tile and at the same time replace it with a sprite using the same image, and then animate it.

[lewster32]

There is a createFromObjects method on TileMap but this replaces all tile matching a certain ID. Maybe looking at the code for that will give you an idea of how to convert a Tile into a Sprite, as that's what this function does within its loop.