Body

Bodies are objects with velocity and position.

Create a new body with love.physics.newBody.

A body can call these functions:

Functions

Body:applyAngularImpulse	Applies an angular impulse to a body.
Body:applyForce	Apply force to a Body.
Body:applyImpulse	Applies an impulse to a body.
Body:applyLinearImpulse	Applies an impulse to a body.
Body:applyTorque	Apply torque to a body.
Body:destroy	Explicitly destroys the Body.
Body:getAllowSleeping	Return whether a body is allowed to sleep.
Body:getAngle	Get the angle of the body.
Body:getAngularDamping	Gets the Angular damping of the Body.
Body:getAngularVelocity	Get the angular velocity of the Body.
Body:getContactList	Gets a list of all Contacts attached to the Body.
Body:getContacts	Gets a list of all Contacts attached to the Body.
Body:getFixtureList	Returns a table with all fixtures.
Body:getFixtures	Returns a table with all fixtures.
Body:getGravityScale	Returns the gravity scale factor.
Body:getInertia	Gets the rotational inertia of the body.
Body:getJointList	Returns a table containing the Joints attached to this Body.
Body:getJoints	Returns a table containing the Joints attached to this Body.
Body:getLinearDamping	Gets the linear damping of the Body.
Body:getLinearVelocity	Gets the linear velocity of the Body from its center of mass.
Body:getLinearVelocityFromLocalPoint	Get the linear velocity of a point on the body.
Body:getLinearVelocityFromWorldPoint	Get the linear velocity of a point on the body.
Body:getLocalCenter	Get the center of mass position in local coordinates.
Body:getLocalPoint	Transform a point from world coordinates to local coordinates.
Body:getLocalPoints	Transforms multiple points from world coordinates to local coordinates.
Body:getLocalVector	Transform a vector from world coordinates to local coordinates.
Body:getMass	Get the mass of the body.
Body:getMassData	Returns the mass, its center, and the rotational inertia.
Body:getPosition	Get the position of the body.
Body:getShape	Gets the first Shape attached to the Body.
Body:getShapes	Returns a table with all Shapes attached to the Body.
Body:getTransform	Get the position and angle of the body.
Body:getType	Returns the type of the body.
Body:getUserData	Returns the Lua value associated with this Body.
Body:getWorld	Gets the World the body lives in.
Body:getWorldCenter	Get the center of mass position in world coordinates.
Body:getWorldPoint	Transform a point from local coordinates to world coordinates.
Body:getWorldPoints	Transforms multiple points from local coordinates to world coordinates.
Body:getWorldVector	Transform a vector from local coordinates to world coordinates.
Body:getX	Get the x position of the body in world coordinates.
Body:getY	Get the y position of the body in world coordinates.
Body:isActive	Returns whether the body is actively used in the simulation.
Body:isAwake	Returns the sleep status of the body.
Body:isBullet	Get the bullet status of a body.
Body:isDestroyed	Gets whether the Body is destroyed.
Body:isDynamic	Get the dynamic status of the body.
Body:isFixedRotation	Returns whether the body rotation is locked.
Body:isFrozen	Get the frozen status of the body.
Body:isSleeping	Get the sleeping status of a body.
Body:isSleepingAllowed	Returns the sleeping behaviour of the body.
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Object:release	Immediately destroys the object's Lua reference.
Object:type	Gets the type of the object as a string.
Object:typeOf	Checks whether an object is of a certain type.

Supertypes

Object

See Also

• love.physics
• love.physics.newBody

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