Group scale?

[Fricken Hamster]

Hey, I don't know if this is a bug or feature, groups scale doesn't extend to the sprites in the group.
I'm using group.scale.x and y
Stuff like position and rotation propagate.

[JackBid]

Just a guess, but you may need to use the setAll group method.

group.setAll(scale.x, 2);

i have not tested this myself, but it may be worth a try!

[Fricken Hamster]

I'll try this later, but I don't know if it'll keep track of each sprite's current scale, or if it'll just set all of them to the target scale.

[Alvin]

Hi,

As JackBid said, it will set the scale.x property of each member of the group to a new value, you cannot do something like group.scale.x++ with setAll only, you would need to iterate through the group with Group.forEach for example.

PS : Be careful as the first parameter of Group.setAll must be a string.

[Fricken Hamster]

I don't think this is what I'm looking for. In Flash if you add display  containers onto a Sprite, you can change the scale of the children, then change the scale of the parent and the ratios would stay the same.

[rich]

You're right, you should be able to scale the group and have it update children. Can you file an issue on github please (if you didn't already).

[Fricken Hamster]

Done!

[Mathieu Anthoine]

Hi,

 

I'm new to Phaser. My background is more ActionScript than HTML5.

 

I try to do some behaviors close to nested MovieClips but Phaser Sprites don't seem to work like DisplayContainer in Flash.

 

So I tried to use a group, add a sprite in it and play with alpha, rotation and.... scale.

 

Scale doesn't seem to work as expected, it's why I reply to this post.

I have seen that the "bug" Fricken Hamster has noticed is fixed in the Phaser 1.1.4, so I downloaded the phaser.min.js 1.1.4 and tried again but it doesn't seem to work.

 

Maybe I did something wrong, here is a part of my code:

var world= game.add.group ();

var grid=new Phaser.Sprite (game,0,0,'grid');

world.add(grid);

world.scale=new Phaser.Point (0.5,0.5);

Thank you for your help.

[rich]

Scale is an existing property of group, so just set it rather than overwrite it: world.scale.x or world.scale.setTo(x,y)

Also you can just do:

var grid = world.create(0, 0, 'grid)

To create sprites within an existing group.

[Heppell08]

So is the scale of the children in the group a phaser bug? My code has grouped sprites for my players health and I had to seperate each heart for scale within the group creation. I've got it as heart1.scale.x= .5 and so on and so forth. That is also set like that as each heart as its own for killing them in an order but it works so don't want to mess with it so much. Mainly the group scale stuff could be helpful though if its not a bug.

[pgoloskokovic]

Was this bug resolved? Still when I change group scale factor it's children stay unaffected. If I change scale factor for every child in a group I get the desired effect.

It would be so much cleaner and easier if this worked.

[rich]

This proves it works: http://phaser.io/examples/v2/groups/group-scale

 

So if you reckon it's broken the ball is in your court to provide a perfectly reproducible test case showing otherwise.

[pgoloskokovic]

I does work, it was my mistake... Sorry for that.

[ptotheaul]

I have a problem.  I can scale a group but the bounding rectangles of the groups children do not scale proportional to the group scale.  Is there an easy way to do this?  I've seen people post that they loop through and reset the body dimensions for the children but it seems like there should be an easier way.