.setDrag Doesn't Work When Object Is Added to A Group

Phaser 3
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Hello,
I have made a physics group called poCars. I have also made a game object with the name poCar. I want to add the poCar game object to the poCars group, for collision. Everything works fine except that .setDrag(1000, 1000) doesn’t work. Drag works fine when I don’t add poCar to the group. I am using Phaser 3.22.0, with Arcade Physics. Here is a code example:

var poCars = this.physics.add.group();
var poCar = this.physics.add.sprite(7772, 48, ‘policeCar’).setScale(1.5).setDrag(1000, 1000);
poCars.add(poCar);
this.physics.add.collider(poCars, player);

The above does increase the scale of the poCar but does not set drag. However, if you just simply comment out poCars.add(poCar); and change this.physics.add.collider(poCars, player); to this.physics.add.collider(poCar, player); (Removing the s in poCars) the drag works again.

Is this a glitch or is there an issue with how I’m doing this? Can you think of a better way to call an overlap function when a member of a group is overlapping a player, and have each child of the group have drag?

One possible solution to this is to iterate over each child of the group and set its drag but I have not tried that yet. Should I?

I know that this is pretty long and confusing because all of the variable names are so similar, so if you have a question feel free to ask.

Thanks,
Ultimate Pro Grammer

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Add the sprite to the group, then modify the sprite.

A physics group has default physics settings it applies to its members. The default drag is 0.

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Thank you for the explanation. I could not figure out how to do it, and it was so simple! I ended up iterating over each child so that I didn’t have to declare any variables.