Discrete movements in Phaser

What is the best approach to let a Phaser.Sprite do discrete movements?

It should continue moving along all possible values, but at the end of a move it must end up on a certain position which will have the following property: position.x % SOME_FIXED_VALUE = 0 and position.y % SOME_FIXED_VALUE = 0

There are many ways to skin this cat, but the easiest may be to create a doppelganger sprite, constrained to the discrete coordinate space. That is, make your actual sprite invisible, and set a second sprite that follows the main sprite with discrete movement.

• Make your main sprite invisible: set Phaser.Sprite.visible to false
• Create a second sprite
• Make the second sprite follow the main sprite in one of your update functions:
• From simple integer division, we know that round(x / y) * y % y == 0, so set the sprite's coordinates accordingly. Use whatever rounding function is appropriate.

i.e.

sprite.x = Math.round(x / SOME_FIXED_VALUE) * SOME_FIXED_VALUE
sprite.y = Math.round(y / SOME_FIXED_VALUE) * SOME_FIXED_VALUE


Sample:

http://jsfiddle.net/bwsgdn0v/

I've kept the main sprite visible so you can see what's going on, as you move the main sprite with the mouse. Sprites from http://opengameart.org/content/squares

I consider this approach easiest as you don't have to hack away at any physics routines or override anything, and it plays well with any existing physics code you may use.

• thanks, it's a good starting point but maybe I was not so clear. The sprite can move along continue values as long as I say for example 'move up'. When I say 'ok now stop' it should continue moving while the property coordinates % S_F_V == 0 is not verified and then it must stops. What i actually do: link – Paolo Cifariello Feb 26 '15 at 23:11