Adding a physics body during collision

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

My character collides with an object that is a sensor. When he collides with the sensor object he picks it up and adds it to the image of the character. I therefor need to swap the character images which is all fine and dandy it’s just corona will refuse to allow me to add a physics body.

I have tried:
• adding the body with a delay ( tried different delays even 500 didnt work)

• using if event.phase “ended” (or whatever it is that still didnt work)

• I tried calling the function directly

I cant think of any more ideas.

Please can someone help me? here is the code:

if event.object1.name == "obj1" or event.object2.name == "obj1" then object1:removeSelf( ) local skaterY = skater.y skater:removeSelf( ) skater = nil skater = display.newImage("skater1.png") skater.x = 230 skater.y = skaterY skater.xScale = 0.3 skater.yScale = 0.3 skater.name = "james" skater.isFixedRotation = true end if event.phase == "ended" then timer.performWithDelay( 10, addSkaterPhys() ) end end

thank you

#2

Is it a scope problem?  We can’t see where skater is defined.

#3

Skater is a global and is defined in the create scene function

Would that be a problem?

James

#4

Actually try this:

timer.performWithDelay( 10, addSkaterPhys )

Take the parens off of the addSkaterPhys function.  timer.performWithDelay() wants the address of the function, not the results of running the function.

Rob

#5

You are my hero hahaha.

I’m going to write a love poem or something, been cracking at that one for hours thank you mate!

James

#6

Is it a scope problem?  We can’t see where skater is defined.

#7

Skater is a global and is defined in the create scene function

Would that be a problem?

James

#8

Actually try this:

timer.performWithDelay( 10, addSkaterPhys )

Take the parens off of the addSkaterPhys function.  timer.performWithDelay() wants the address of the function, not the results of running the function.

Rob

#9

You are my hero hahaha.

I’m going to write a love poem or something, been cracking at that one for hours thank you mate!

James