Phaser Nineslice

Phaser-Ninslice plugin adds 9 slice scaling support to Phaser!

Key features:

• Blazing fast
• Low memory usage
• Easy to use API

Getting Started

First you want to get a fresh copy of the plugin. You can get it from this repo or from npm, ain't that handy.

npm install phaser-nineslice --save-dev

Next up you'd want to add it to your list of js sources you load into your game

<script src="node_modules/phaser-nineslice/build/phaser-nineslice.js"></script>

Usage

Load the plugin

You still need to load the plugin in your game. This is done just like any other plugin in Phaser. So, to load the plugin, include it one of the Phaser States.

function preload(){
game.plugins.add(Fabrique.Plugins.NineSlice);
}

The plugin will patch your Phaser game with additional load/add/make methods so the ninslice container fits up in Phaser like any normal object!

Preloading

Like any other asset in Phaser, you still need to preload the image. It's a bit different then a regular image, in the sense that it requires some extra data.

Apart from the key and the url, you can also specify the sizes of top, left, right and bottom sides.

If you don't specify a bottom size, it will use the value for the top. Same goes for right and left.

It's also possible to only give one size. If only one value is given, this will use that for the edges.

//This will load a 9slice texture where all sides are 25px
game.load.nineSlice('my-image', '/images/my-image.jpg', 25);
 
//This will load a 9slice texture where the
// top is 10, left is 15, right is 20 and bottom is 30 pixels in size
game.load.nineSlice('my-image', '/images/my-image.jpg', 10, 15, 20, 30);

Adding a container

Also adding and creating of 9slice containers is exposed through Phaser's GameObjectCreator and GameObjectFactory. So you can add a 9slice container to your game just like any other image once it's preloaded!

//We specify the x and y position. the key for the image and the width and height of the container. It will be automaticly scaled!
game.add.nineSlice(100, 100, 'my-image', 200, 50);

Or if you'd want to do something with it first:

//Two options here, first we use Phaser
var container = game.create.nineSlice(0, 0, 'my-image', 200, 50);
container.x = 20;
container.y = 20;
game.add.existing(container);
 
//Or we use the Constructor
var nineSlice = new Fabrique.NineSlice(game, 0, 0, 'my-image', null, 200, 50);
nineSlice.x = 50;
nineSlice.y = 50;
game.add.existing(nineSlice);

Resize method

9Slice container has a resize method which lets you expand/shorten the width or length of the image. When using resize method, make sure values are not lower than the width of the image corners

var sliceContainer = game.add.nineSlice(5, 5, 'image', null, 48, 48);
sliceContainer.resize(100, 200);

Disclaimer

We at OrangeGames just love playing and creating awesome games. We aren't affiliated with Phaser.io. We just needed some awesome nine slice containers in our awesome HTML5 games. Feel free to use it for enhancing your own awesome games!

Phaser NineSlice is distributed under the MIT license. All 3rd party libraries and components are distributed under their respective license terms.