Phaser: Introduce `getVelocity` method to the arcade velocity component

[frob]

We're constantly trying to make Phaser 3 better

I am working on an example to learn the Phaser Engine. I use Pong as an quick hello world when I am learning a new game engine due to its simple rules, multiplayer/single with simple ai, score keeping, and win conditions.

One thing I would like to do is get the Vector2 that is used for the velocity so I can tell which way the ball was traveling when a score happens. There currently doesn't seem to be a way to do this. Am I missing this or is this really a missing feature from the API.

[Optional] Do you want to help provide this feature?

I would like to help contribute this if it is a missing feature. It looks like adding a getVelocity method to the Velocity component would be the most straight forward way. Thoughts?

[photonstorm]

Hi, I assume you're using Arcade Physics? If so, the velocity can be obtained from Sprite.body.velocity.

[frob]

That worked.

Okay, swear I dug though the debugger looking for exactly that, but I missed it. I am just getting started with phaserjs and I was surprised that this was "missing"

Thanks for the quick response.

[photonstorm]

Wouldn't be much use if it was missing :)

[JayB19]

Arcade.Sprite had "set" methods, but dont have "get" methods =(
I preffer use method calls instead getting property by myself.
I think this would be better to implement getters to this components.