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CGPoint absolutePosition = [sprite convertToWorldSpace:CGPointZero];Could you add this tip here:
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/tips:generic
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thanks.
wow I spent the entire day yesterday trying to figure this out only to fudge my numbers, glad I stumbled on this post! This should seriously be in the tips page!
Steve Oldmeadow
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urip
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I tested this method a bit, and I can't quite understand the values I get as I change the anchor point.
(0,0) anchor point is top left, right? (1,0) top right, (1,0) bottom left, and (1,1) bottom right. so far so good?
I have a sprite, 40 px width and 30 px height. I set the sprite's position to (100,100) (that means the distance of the sprite's center point from the bottom left corner of the scene is (100, 100), right?), and observed the points returned by [sprite convertToWorldSpace:CGPointZero]
anchorPoint: (0, 0) point returned: (100, 100)
anchorPoint: (1, 0) point returned: (60, 100)
anchorPoint: (0, 1) point returned: (100, 70)
anchorPoint: (1, 1) point returned: (60, 70)
anchorPoint: (0.5, 0.5) point returned: (80, 85)
I can't find the logic in those coordinates. If I assume those coordinates are indeed relative to the bottom left corner of the scene, than (0,0) anchor point is actually top right, and (1,1) bottom left. Also, why isn't the center point (0.5, 0.5) returns the regular position I've set? Isn't the sprite's position relative to its center?
Help anybody???
urip
Member
just to let you know
I discovered not only the coordinates are disordered, but also they are actually incorrect. I placed a sprite (40 width, 30 height) in the position (20, 15) so its bottom left corner touches the scene's bottom left corner.
I assumed (0,0) anchor point is bottom left and (1,1) is the top right.
Those are the values returned.
Seems like the only correct coordinate is the one corresponding to (0.5, 0.5) anchor point, and is actually the left bottom point of the sprite.
I can find all the actual points by the bottom left one and some simple math calculations so that's not a fatal problem, but I thought you should know about that anyway.
urip
Member
yes, but I'm just trying to figure out more information about this bug before I post a bug report.
Seems like there is a problem with the anchor point not only with the convertToWorldSpace method, but also with effects (such as scale). If I set the anchorPoint to (0,0) and scale the sprite to 0.5, the sprite sticks to its top right corner. (1,1) anchor point makes the sprite stick to its bottom left corner. Is this the way it is supposed to be? It think it's supposed to be the other way around, isn't it? I checked it in two different projects so it's not a unique problem in my project.
Assuming this is really a bug, I think we discovered two different bugs here. One is a quite a minor one (anchor point is up side down). The second one is that the convertToWorldSpace method doesn't work properly, but that might be a result of the previous bug, although as I said before, the coordinates returned by that method are not only turned up side down like the anchor point, but they are also incorrect.
What do you think? Do you want me to report those bugs in one report or two?
the anchorPoint / scale is working Ok.
Please, see the tests/cocosnodeTest.m. It shows how the anchor point should work.
regarding the convertToWorldSpace, I think it's a bug.
urip
Member
another scale/anchor point related question:
I've placed a sprite at (100, 100), scaled it to 0.5, and then changed the anchor point to (1, 1). After the change the sprite actually moved on screen.
Is this the way it's supposed to be? changing the anchor point actually moves the sprite?
changing the anchor point doesn't effect the sprite's appearance if it isn't scaled, so I can't find the logic here.
yes, if you change the anchorPoint the sprite is moved.
please, see the cocosnodeTest.m (and run it!) to understand the meaning of anchorPoint.
whether your sprite is scaled or not, it will be moved if you change the anchorpoint.
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