How do I make my player disappear after 3 seconds?

Hi TheMart,

I just tried this on my project and it worked:

This is only the hiding part, not the reappearing part, but if you understand it then you can figure out the rest yourself.

Basically I check if the platform is not moving, if it isn't then I add to a variable I called TimeElapsed. I add dt - which is a variable that stands for delta time - the time that elapsed since the last frame.

Then I check if TimeElapsed is already larger than 3, and if it is I remove 10% of opacity from the previous opacity value (of the animation object, not of the collision object - depends if you have these in two different objects or not).

Let me know if that helped.

ilanfl You need to use dt for opacity too, otherwise the object will disappear/appear almost instantly, especially at high framerates.

If Player is moving: 
.. Set TimeElapsed to 0
.. Obj set opacity to self.opacity+dt*100

Else 
.. Add dt to TimeElapsed 

If TimeElapsed>3 
.. Obj set opacity to self.opacity-dt*50