Check if sprite is over another sprite

[mau649612]

Hello guys, is there a easy way if is an sprite over another sprite?

 

For example, in my game I can put 2 sprites in the world with random positions, but they must not cover up each other... I have a reference for both objects, so I was wondering if can I do something like this:

Phaser.Sprite.over(sprite1, sprite2); // true or false

both sprite1 and sprite2 is a reference for the created sprite.

 

Thanks!

[lewster32]

Yep, Sprite.overlap does this: 

if (sprite1.overlap(sprite2)) {  // do something...}

Of course if you're using physics you also have all of their overlapping and collision detection routines too, but the above feature is provided for quick 'bounds overlapping' checks such as this.

[mau649612]

Do I have to use physics on my sprites to use overlap?

[mau649612]

For some reasong, it's always returning true... even when the sprites are not touching...

[mau649612]

Got it working... I had to use a timeout when calling overlap, because it was checking it too fast, before the sprites were in the game canvas.

 

Thanks!

[lewster32]

Don't use timeouts if you can help it in Phaser, try to do everything in the update loop or at the very least use the built in Phaser.Timer to set delays - game.time is a convenient instance of Timer ready to use.