phaser Text doesn't render properly after loading tilemap

[swissnetizen]

This is on 2.4.4 because 2.4.5 has some text rendering issues of its own.

I've got this really weird issue. I have a menu screen which advances to a level select and then play. When advanced to the level select then back to the menu, the menu text is unaffected. If I advance to a level before going back to the menu, the text doesn't appear any more (I've checked, and it does exist). But when we try to advance to a level which doesn't exist (and I deliver an error message) the text still appears.

I've narrowed the issue down to when I added support for tilemaps.

Edited February 18, 2016 by swissnetizen
level to tilemap

[drhayes]

Do you change states to show the menu? I've displayed text after loading a tilemap in 2.4.4 so I don't think that's all there is to it.

[swissnetizen]

I do change states, but I think it's caused by the tilemap because I've checked diffs of the source before and after and tilemaps was the major change (there was a minor tweak to some keyboard events).

[drhayes]

Wait, sorry, I'm confused: is the problem that the text isn't showing up or that it is?

[swissnetizen]

The issue is that it doesn't show; yet when you check game.world.children it says that the text exists.

[swissnetizen]

Just updated to Phaser 2.4.6, no improvement.

[jpdev]

Try to reset the camera and world size at the beginning of your menu state.

At least when I had this problem it was caused by the level having a bigger world size and the menu being placed at the world center (which was off screen).

[swissnetizen]

That makes sense, how would you do that?

[jpdev]

You could first add:

game.debug.cameraInfo(game.camera, 32, 32);

to your render method, to get information on the camera.

 

To test if the world size is the problem put:

game.world.setBounds(0, 0, 1920, 1920); 

to the create method of your menu state. (but use the resolution your game has).

 

 

[swissnetizen]

Thanks! that was it!