flashing sprites

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Hi everybody,
I need to load flashing sprites in my 3d world (like stars, christmas lights, etc...). I read the filenames of the sprites form a file; each sprite has a different flashing time and position that I can't know until reading the file.

My problem is that I don't know how to handle the flashing behaviour: I don't want to control a timer in the main code for each sprite manually. (I don't know how many sprites there will be..) I would like each sprite has an independent flashing behaviour.

Does anybody have idea to how to do that?
I tried to use animated meshes (planes with textures) but I got some problems with transparency.

Thanks a lot,
fiNegiro