scaling a Sprite but not the body

[sidneywidmer]

Hey everyone, 

 

Is it possible to scale a sprite but leave its body as is? I have the following code:

var tween = this.game.add.tween(this.scale).to({x: 0.7, y: 0.7}, 600, Phaser.Easing.Linear.None, true, 0, Number.MAX_VALUE, true);

With this tween i also change the body of the sprite and not just the underlying texture/image.

 

[sidneywidmer]

Is this really not possible? I'm fighting with this for several days now and couldn't figure anything out yet... Can't I somehow access the underlying PIXI texture and change that? 

[Zaidar]

What if you use setSize() on the body ?

It works with the Arcade physics btw.

http://docs.phaser.io/Phaser.Physics.Arcade.Body.html#setSize

[sidneywidmer]

Basically I need the exact opposite of this. I don't want to scale the body, I want to scale the graphic. So let's say the physics body is 30x30px, then the image inside of it should only be 15x15px

[lewster32]

setSize can make the body bigger or smaller. If your sprite is anchored to the center (sprite.anchor.set(0.5)) then you can make the body twice as large by doing:

sprite.body.setSize(sprite.width * 2, sprite.height * 2, 0, 0);

Whereas if you want it to be twice as small you'd do:

sprite.body.setSize(sprite.width * 0.5, sprite.height * 0.5, 0, 0);

If the anchor is not central, then the second two parameters would have to be set accordingly to adjust the offset on the x and y axes.

 

Also, I believe some of the static functions in the Phaser.Rectangle object can be applied to the body, such as Phaser.Rectangle.inflate, as they just alter the x, y, width and height - all of which are valid properties on body. This may cause type errors in TypeScript however.