Is it possible to have game.add.text("...") follow a sprite?

Phaser 3
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Hello guys. I’m kinda new to Phaser.

I’m finishing up my first project, and am trying to heal some of the biggest wounds. :slight_smile:

I’ve spent quite a few attempts on this, but moved on every time with the intent of comming back to it.

So, I’m thinking I need my game.add.text to use the position.x and position.y of one of my Sprites.

If I put it in create() the text is placed at the first x,y position and not updated again.
If i put it in update() the text is ruined when moving the Sprite as the text is turned unreadable quite fast as it’s rendered 60 times a sec on top of itself…

Hope someone can see a logical solution to this amateur problem.

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maybe something like this:
inside create()

this.followText = this.add.text(0, 0, "My Name");

and inside update()

this.followText.setPosition(sprite.x, sprite.y);

You just need to creating the text object once and play with the position afterward

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Uncaught TypeError: this.followText.setPosition is not a function

Hmmm. Any ideas?

4

can you show some of relevant code?
I though this.followText is not created propely in yours

5

Are you sure this setPosition exists in the API? Never hard of it before. I’m also quite certain that if it existed the syntax would be sprite.position.x and not sprite.x?

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Example:

for (const data of hintData) {
	const hintObject = this.add.text(0, 0, data.hintMessage);
	hintObject.setAlign('center')
		.setOrigin(0.5)
		.setPosition(data.x, data.y)
		.setFontSize(20);
	this._hintTexts.push(hintObject);
}

Yes, thats what I always working for.
And also pls read the doc: https://photonstorm.github.io/phaser3-docs/Phaser.GameObjects.Text.html#setPosition__anchor
Or maybe, just maybe, you’re in the old version of Phaser 3

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setPosition has existed since the start of Phaser 3. Game Objects don’t keep their positions in vectors, so sprite.position wouldn’t exist.

game.add is a Phaser 2 API. Are you sure you’re on Phaser 3?

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No I’m on Phaser 2 CE, I thought the syntax was almost the same.
I guess it’s not at all. I’m sorry.