phaser 2.4.8

Watch Hill

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Version 2.4.8 - "Watch Hill" - 19th May 2016

New Features

• BitmapData.copy, and by extension any method that uses it, including BitmapData.draw, drawGroup and drawFull, now all support drawing RenderTexture objects. These can either be passed directly, or be the textures of Sprites, such as from a call to generateTexture.
• Arcade Physics has had a new world argument added to the following functions: distanceBetween, distanceToXY, distanceToPointer, angleBetween, angleToXY and angleToPointer. The argument (which is false by default), when enabled will calculate the angles or distances based on the Game Objects world property, instead of its x and y properties. This allows it to work for objects that are placed in offset Groups, or are children of other display objects (thanks @Skeptron for the thread #2463)
• Arcade Physics Body has a new property worldBounce. This controls the elasticity of the Body specifically when colliding with the World bounds. By default this property is null, in which case Body.bounce is used instead. Set this property to a Phaser.Point object in order to enable a World bounds specific bounce value (thanks @VitaZheltyakov #2465)

Updates

• TypeScript definitions fixes and updates (thanks @osev7 @staff0rd @galen-manuel)
• Docs typo fixes (thanks @dedoubleyou1 @mortonfox @zeterain)
• You can now access the intensity of the Camera shake effect via the getter / setter Camera.shakeIntensity. Useful if you wish to tween the intensity while running. (thanks @drhayes #2443)
• The Arcade Physics overlap method would return false if two bodies were overlapping but neither had any velocity (i.e. they were embedded into each other)
• PIXI.defaultRenderer is now set to null in Game.destroy, allowing it to be reset if a new Game instance is created on the same page (thanks @xtforgame ##2474)
• BitmapData.drawGroupProxy is now capable of iterating through Sprites that have children, and also now uses the world positions for drawing instead. This change updates the functionality of BitmapData.drawGroup.
• Text.setStyle has a new argument update which will optionally automatically call updateText after setting the new style (thanks @staff0rd #2478)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in the Arcade Physics overlap method where it would only detect overlaps up to the max bias threshold and no further (thanks @rgk #2441)
• InputHandler.checkPointerDown and checkPointerOver will now test the worldTransform scale property of a Sprite. If zero it will fast return, where-as before it would incorrectly report an up event (thanks @jaapaurelio #2466)
• Fixed a bug in Arcade Physics Body.preUpdate which would incorrectly apply the position of an offset Body (one which has had Body.setSize used on it) when combined with a Sprite with a non-zero anchor (thanks @SBCGames #2470)
• If you set Game.renderType to Phaser.HEADLESS it will no longer render the output to the canvas. The canvas is still created (although not added to the DOM), as it's required internally, but no rendering now takes place on it (thanks @ForgeableSum #2464)
• Sounds played using the Audio tag, that were paused and then resumed again (either directly in code, or via a game pause event) would not resume from the point at which they paused (thanks @rroylance #2473)
• Sounds played using the Audio tag, set to loop, would get caught in an endless pause-play loop cycle (thanks @rroylance #2473)

Pixi Updates

Please note that Phaser uses a custom build of Pixi and always has done. The following changes have been made to our custom build, not to Pixi in general.

• Sprites that had a tint on them, that then had their frame changed via either Sprite.frame or Sprite.frameName wouldn't re-tint the new frame, and would become stuck on the old frame in Canvas mode (thaks @spayton #2453)