How to make sprite invisible?

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#1

I need change property of sprite to invisible, for a time. I not able to find in documentation.

#2

You can use msg.post("#sprite", “disable”) or go.set("#sprite", “tint”, vmath.vector4(1,1,1,0))

and then when you want it to appear again use:
msg.post("#sprite", “enable”) or go.set("#sprite", “tint”, vmath.vector4(1,1,1,1)) depending on your initial choice

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#3

This is the preferred way. A disabled component will have virtually zero impact on performance. Setting alpha to 0 will still result in a lot of computations in the engine.

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#4

Has keyword list from learn document? like “disable”.

#5

The API reference shows all of the messages you can send to various components. I also made several changes to the manuals:

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