Animations with custom drawings?

Question

I'm using custom drawings for almost everything in one project I'm working on. Until now I have used linear velocity etc. But now I need to create some kind of small animations that disappear after some time. For example an small animation when the player touch the screen (longer than the actual touch).

I don't know what is the best method to do this, and I would like to know if it is a better method that the ones I can think of:

• Add child to that exact animation with a timer. I should "deactivate" the child after the times consume (or other conditional). I'm not sure how to do this exactly, but seems to be the best approach.
• Create a conditional inside a _draw():. I don't like that much this approache because I maybe I need more than one animation at a time, and should check that condition every frame.

Comments

Note that _draw is called not every frame, but only after (but not immediately after) update() is called.

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Yes I know, I simplified because since I'm using already a lot of custom drawing I need to use a new _draw(): function or the ones I'm already using.

Answer 1

I think the best way to do this is create an instance of an scene and add it as a child:

For example:

    anim = preload("res://winanim.scn").instance()

And in the node free that node when necessary, for example with a timer

    var timer = Timer.new()
timer.set_wait_time(3) # time in secondn
timer.connect("timeout",self,"queue_free")
add_child(timer)
timer.start()

There are probably other better solutions, but this one seems not that bad. You can also quit that scene with

queue_free() 

at any point.

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