Problem: "object.body is undefined"

[jagd]

Hi, first-time user here,

 

In my game, I have a vehicle that is made up of multiple objects.  Since we're going to have to rotate or move every piece together, I thought I could make a group for all the objects, call it "Player", then use code like Player.body.velocity.x = 1, etc. in the update function to control it.  However, it keeps telling me Player.body is undefined.

 

Here is my code:

 

window.onload = function() {

 

     var game = new Phaser.Game(800, 600, Phaser.CANVAS, 'prototype', { preload: preload, create: create, update: update });

 

     function preload () {

           game.load.image('Rover_proto', 'Assets/Art/Rover/Rover_proto.png');

}   

 

var Player;

 

     function create () {

        //  We're going to be using physics, so enable the Arcade Physics system

       game.physics.startSystem(Phaser.Physics.ARCADE);

        

        //The actual rover will be made of separate objects,

        //we put them all in a group so they all act together.

        Player = game.add.group();

        game.physics.arcade.enable(Player)

        // We will enable physics for any object that is created in this group

      Player.body.enable = true; // ERROR:  Player.body is undefined

        

        //create the prototype rover in the Player group

        //Rover_proto = Player.create(game.world.centerX, game.world.centerY, 'Rover_proto');

 

        var Rover_proto = game.add.sprite(game.world.centerX, game.world.centerY, 'Rover_proto');

        game.physics.arcade.enable(Rover_proto);

        Rover_proto.body.enable = true;

        Player.add(Rover_proto);

    }

 

     function update(){

     //Moving the rover

     //reset the player's velocity

     Player.body.velocity.x = 0; // ERROR:  Player.body is undefined

}

};

 

So yeah, it keeps telling me Player.body is undefined, even though I say "Player.body.enable = true."  If I use the Rover_proto.body and comment out everything to do with Player, it works fine and tells me that Rover_proto.body is defined.

 

I want to know if I'm using groups right and how to make this error go away, and still be able to put everything for our Rover under one group.  I've looked at various guides and examples online but they are all contradictory, using totally different commands (like object.body.enable versus object.enableBody, I don't know if there is even a difference).  I checked the documentation but it doesn't have any real examples.

 

Thanks for the help,

--jagd

[yigitozdemir]

You can try:

game.physics.arcade.enable(Player)

[jagd]

Yes, as can be seen in the code above, I already tried that.  The problem seems to be that for some reason the game isn't creating a body for the Player group.

 

I just tried getting rid of the Player group and just having the Rover object by itself, but when I try to do Rover_proto.body.velocity.x it gives me the error  

 

ReferenceError: Rover_proto is not defined

 

As compared to the error when I try to use Player.body where it says:

 

TypeError: Player.body is undefined

 

So with the Player group, it gives me a TypeError on the line where I say "Player.body.enable = true;" saying that Player.body is undefined.  And when I use Rover_proto object, for some reason it is fine with the line "Rover_proto.body.enable = true;" but gives me a ReferenceError when I try "Rover_proto.body.velocity.x" saying Rover_proto itself is undefined.

 

I have no idea what's going on but it looks like there are multiple problems.

[jagd]

I got a lot of my code from the tutorial here <http://www.photonstorm.com/phaser/tutorial-making-your-first-phaser-game> but it's not working for me.

[jagd]

Okay I figured it out, turns out for groups you have to do enableBody not .body.enable.