Anchor emitter to sprite

[Stonekeeper]

On the webpage it talks about attaching an emitter to a sprite so that you can create a "jet". Is this done via groups? I've setup a player sprite and all my controls currently work on that. If creating a group is the answer, should a refactor be as simple as changing <sprite>.body to <group>.body?

 

Thanks. 

[codevinsky]

Check this out: Phaser: Attach Particle Emitter to a sprite [CodePen]

 

The most important thing to take away is that you can add any game object to a sprite with: 

sprite.addChild(gameObject);

[Stonekeeper]

Perfect! Thank you so much.

Seems obvious when you see the code.

[Stonekeeper]

Looks like the particles are also affected by the rotation of the parent object. Not really what I was looking for. If there is no way to detach the particle from the transformation pipeline then I may just have to calculate emitter position independently using cos/sin.

[george]

I would not add the emitter to a sprite with addChild. You can't really control if the emitter is going to render above or beneath the sprite texture. You should place a simple position syncing in your update loop.

//This update function is provided by your current stateupdate: function(){    emitter.x = sprite.x    emitter.y = sprite.y} 

That's it.

By the way, you could also apply a counter rotation to the emitter in your sprite's update function. Something like this. This works as long as your sprite is not inside another object that is rotated itself. 

//inside your sprite updateemitter.rotation = -this.rotation

But why would you do it like this? Use the manual sync mentioned above instead!

[codevinsky]

george: 

 

A quick question:

How would you determine the speed to set the particles so that they always fired "behind" the sprite, even after rotation?

[george]

Your are talking about the situation that the emitter is not a child of the sprite aren't you ? The emitter inherits from group. Every particles is a child of the emitter. As long as the emitter is behind the sprite all the particles are behind it too.  The emitter itself is a display object and can be brought in the correct display order with a #swap, a #bringToTop call or whatever you can use to modify the order.

[rich]

If the Sci-Fly example (under tilemaps) you'll see how I attach an emitter to a sprite. Could work for this maybe.

[Hipe]

Hi, may I use this post by George (

//This update function is provided by your current stateupdate: function(){    emitter.x = sprite.x    emitter.y = sprite.y} 

)

I have a group of missile and I need each missile be follow by my particles.

 

Thanks a lot.

[samme]