It’d be awesome if you could draw sprite from event sheet (with given alpha, scale, at given position, rotation, etc) without putting any object with that sprite in the scene. (I mean something similar to GameMaker which allows this through draw_sprite_* functions in draw event of any object)
Something like
SOME_CONDITION … Draw Sprite SPRITE_RESOURCE at X, Y WITH 50% OPACITY, X degree rotation, XSCALE, YSXCALE, RGB TINT.
(and it’d draw if that condition matches only, no need for collision mask either)