Shape

Shapes are solid 2d geometrical objects which handle the mass and collision of a Body in love.physics.

Shapes are attached to a Body via a Fixture. The Shape object is copied when this happens.

The Shape's position is relative to the position of the Body it has been attached to.

Constructors

love.physics.newChainShape	Creates a new ChainShape.	0.8.0
love.physics.newCircleShape	Creates a new CircleShape.
love.physics.newEdgeShape	Creates a new EdgeShape.	0.8.0
love.physics.newPolygonShape	Creates a new PolygonShape.
love.physics.newRectangleShape	Shorthand for creating rectangular PolygonShapes.

Functions

Object:release	Immediately destroys the object's Lua reference.	11.0
Object:type	Gets the type of the object as a string.
Object:typeOf	Checks whether an object is of a certain type.
Shape:computeAABB	Returns the points of the bounding box for the transformed shape.	0.8.0
Shape:computeMass	Computes the mass properties for the shape.	0.8.0
Shape:destroy	Explicitly destroys the Shape.		0.8.0
Shape:getBody	Get the body the shape is attached to.	0.7.0	0.8.0
Shape:getBoundingBox	Gets the bounding box of the shape.		0.8.0
Shape:getCategory	Gets the categories this shape is a member of.		0.8.0
Shape:getCategoryBits	Gets the categories as a 16-bit integer.		0.8.0
Shape:getChildCount	Returns the number of children the shape has.	0.8.0
Shape:getData	Get the data set with setData.		0.8.0
Shape:getDensity	Gets the density of the Shape.		0.8.0
Shape:getFilterData	Gets the filter data of the Shape.		0.8.0
Shape:getFriction	Gets the friction of this shape.		0.8.0
Shape:getMask	Gets which categories this shape should NOT collide with.		0.8.0
Shape:getRadius	Gets the radius of the shape.
Shape:getRestitution	Gets the restitution of this shape.		0.8.0
Shape:getType	Gets a string representing the Shape.
Shape:isSensor	Checks whether a Shape is a sensor or not.		0.8.0
Shape:rayCast	Casts a ray against the shape.	0.8.0
Shape:setCategory	Sets the categories this shape is a member of.		0.8.0
Shape:setData	Set data to be passed to the collision callback.		0.8.0
Shape:setDensity	Sets the density of a Shape.		0.8.0
Shape:setFilterData	Sets the filter data for a Shape.		0.8.0
Shape:setFriction	Sets the friction of the shape.		0.8.0
Shape:setMask	Sets which categories this shape should NOT collide with.		0.8.0
Shape:setRestitution	Sets the restitution of the shape.		0.8.0
Shape:setSensor	Sets whether this shape should act as a sensor.		0.8.0
Shape:testPoint	Checks whether a point lies inside the shape.
Shape:testSegment	Checks whether a line segment intersects a shape.		0.8.0

Enums

ShapeType

The different types of Shapes, as returned by Shape:getType.

Supertypes

Object

Subtypes

ChainShape	A ChainShape consists of multiple line segments.
CircleShape	Circle extends Shape and adds a radius and a local position.
EdgeShape	EdgeShape is a line segment.
PolygonShape	Polygon is a convex polygon with up to 8 sides.