How to access the coordinates of a moving object in phaser ?

[sauravtom]

Hi guys, I am back with another noobish question.

 

I have created a text object in my game.

this.text1 = this.add.text(63, 50, "Option 1", style);

and added some fancy tween animation to it.

and now in the update function I want to access its position,

console.log(this.text1.x);

But it only returns "63" i.e the initial position that I created it at, and not the dynamic position.

 

How can I make it return the real time position of the text object ?

 

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I basically wanted to check the position of text to make sure whether it was overlapping with my main character.

I went through the docs and I though that maybe I should use the overlap function for this .

So I added the following in the update function.

this.game.physics.overlap(this.bird, this.text1, this.restart_game, null, this);

But sadly that didn't work either.

 

[rich]

Hmm that should work, but it depends how you're tweening it. Try looking at this.text1.position.x/y and see if that differs.

[sauravtom]

Hmm that should work, but it depends how you're tweening it. Try looking at this.text1.position.x/y and see if that differs.

 

@rich, I am tweening the text as follows, 

var tweenTimeMS=1000*(width/pipe_velocity); var tweenAutoStart=true; var tweenDelay=0; var tweenRepeat=false; var tween1 = this.add.tween(this.text1).to( {x:0}, tweenTimeMS, Phaser.Easing.Linear.In, tweenAutoStart, tweenDelay, tweenRepeat); 

and upon using this.text1.position.x , I am getting the initial value( 63 ) as before.