sprite.body.touching.down? What triggers it boolean to be true?

[olavur]

HI

Been going through the Book Discover Phaser, but are stuck with this bit of code: 

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if (this.cursor.up.isDown && this.player.body.touching.down) {

// Move the player upward (jump)

this.player.body.velocity.y = -320;

}

 

The jump functionality on the player somehow doe's not work. When I console.log the body.touching object, I can see, that body.touching.down does not turn true, when the player hit's the a platform. Furthermore, the cursor.up is detected when I leave out this bit of code: '&& this.player.body.touching.down', but somehow does not function, when the code is as in the Quote. Any Ideas to what I should be looking for? Thanks.

[samme]

body.touching is contact with another sprite as detected by arcade.overlap/collide, called previously, during the current update.

body.blocked is contact with a tile or the world boundary.

[olavur]

OK. I'll look into that. Thanks for the answer