Sprites temporarily invisible
http://jsfiddle.net/XgHvD/
Start the game, then click a few times. The function that spawns the cards is on line 44.
As you can see here, whenever a sprite is created during runtime, it is invisible for about a second. Yet the missiles in the tutorial do not suffer from this problem. What are we missing?
I managed to improve it a bit from what it shown here by moving the spawning from the click event into the main loop, using the event to set a flag instead of spawning directly. But it's still painfully delayed, and all the other graphics that we add dynamically have the same problem. What's up?
Start the game, then click a few times. The function that spawns the cards is on line 44.
As you can see here, whenever a sprite is created during runtime, it is invisible for about a second. Yet the missiles in the tutorial do not suffer from this problem. What are we missing?
I managed to improve it a bit from what it shown here by moving the spawning from the click event into the main loop, using the event to set a flag instead of spawning directly. But it's still painfully delayed, and all the other graphics that we add dynamically have the same problem. What's up?
Comments
I thought animations would be loaded in local memory, not picked up on the fly. What's up with that?
After doing some debugging of your code I found this out: the images served by dropbox are marked as:
cache-control:no-cache. This means that in effect the cache is bypassed and the browser as to request the images each time.I don't know why dropbox is doing this and if it can be disabled but I wouldn't use dropbox as an hosting if you can use something else...
Yeah, Dropbox is merely a temporary hosting solution as Kodingen is down.