Iterate over bullets

[JackAttack]

I'm making a tower defence game and it uses bullets generated through Phaser's weapon/bullet plugin.

I want to iterate over them within the game state's update(), however when I do either of the following:

                this.game.children.forEach(function(bullet) {
                    console.log(bullet);
                }, this);

                this.game.bullets.children.forEach(function(bullet) {
                    console.log(bullet);
                }, this);

The bullet object is the group of bullets, not the bullet sprite itself. Inspecting bullet, I can see it has a children property, which is an array of the bullet sprites I want. Alas, trying this.game.bullets.children.forEach() still doesn't get them.

The equivalent code on a different group, such as:

                this.game.towers.forEach(function(tower) {
                    console.log(tower);
                }, this);

behaves as expected, tower is a tower sprite, and not it's containing group.

Is there something special about the bullets group that is causing this? If so, is there a way of getting all bullets?

 

[samid737]

Hi, did you include the name of your weapon object in order to retrieve it from the actual weapon itself:

myWeapon= game.add.weapon(30, 'phaz0r');
myWeapon.bullets.forEach(function(bullet){console.log(bullet)});

This works in my case? bullets are a property (a group) of the weapon object.

http://phaser.io/docs/2.6.2/Phaser.Weapon.html#bullets

[JackAttack]

Thanks Samid, using the weapon object got me there.

In my case, each weapon is found at weapon1 property in a tower object, which is in the towers group, so my code looks like:

                this.towers.forEach(function(tower) {
                    if (tower.weapon1) {
                        tower.weapon1.bullets.forEach(function (bullet) {
                            console.log(bullet)
                        });
                    }
                }, this);

 

[msickle]

You can check one pool of objects against another very simply:

this.physics.arcade.overlap( g.bulletPool, this.jetPool, this.enemyHit, null, this );

 

[JackAttack]

Thanks Bobomite, I'm actually doing something a bit different here, which is redirecting each bullet towards a target I've given it (which is a sprite).

If anyone is interested, the code I'm using is:

            // Begin bullet heat-seeking
            this.towers.forEach(function(tower) {
                if (tower.weapon1) {
                    tower.weapon1.bullets.forEach(function (bullet) {
                        if (bullet.target && bullet.target.alive) {
                            var midPoint = mainState.getMidPointBetweenSprites(bullet, bullet.target);
                            var moveX = Math.cos(this.game.math.degToRad(midPoint.angle)) * bullet.speed;
                            var moveY = Math.sin(this.game.math.degToRad(midPoint.angle)) * bullet.speed;
                            bullet.body.velocity.set(moveX, moveY);
                        }
                    });
                }
            }, this);
            // End bullet heat-seeking

The getMidPointBetweenSprites function I use here provides the angle:

mainState.getMidPointBetweenSprites = function(spriteA, spriteB)
{
    return {
        x: Math.round((spriteA.x + spriteB.x) / 2),
        y: Math.round((spriteA.y + spriteB.y) / 2),
        angle: Math.atan2(spriteB.y - spriteA.y, spriteB.x - spriteA.x ) * (180/Math.PI)
    }
};