Adding child to sprite distorts childs dimensions & location.

[demiculus]

I posted on stackoverflow cause it is the default location where I ask programming issues. I thought I'd also post here. If that goes against the rules or something I'll be happy to be notified about it. 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52916076/adding-child-to-pixi-js-sprite-distorts-childs-dimensions-location

 

[ivan.popelyshev]

Its a serious issue that exists for all the time of PixiJS, it even predates pixi , it exists in Flash!

The issue follows:

1. width and height props are evil. They are not first-class citizens. https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js/wiki/v4-Gotchas#width-and-height-are-evil

2. the behaviour cant be changed because of compatibility with flash. https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js/blob/dev/src/core/display/Container.js#L570

Look here: https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js/blob/dev/src/core/sprites/Sprite.js#L373 . Extend Sprite class, override getLocalBounds method that way it ignores children, leave only the code inside that "if".