`Phaser.Display.Align.In.Center` works well with the first line of my text but doesn't center my 2nd line. How do I fix it?

Question

I'm trying to make some kind of a notification/message box giving players hints to advance the gameplay, here is the code

 var game = new Phaser.Game({ width: 320, height: 200, scene: { create: create } }); function create() { let noti_bg = this.add.rectangle(160, 100, 200, 120, 0x000000, .5); let noti_txt = this.add.text(0, 0, 'Magic is not ready yet\n\nwait a sec'); Phaser.Display.Align.In.Center(noti_txt, noti_bg); }

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Phaser.Display.Align.In.Center works well with the first line of my text but doesn't center my 2nd line. How do I fix it?

Answer 1

Phaser.Display.Align.In.Center just aligns single GameObjects. Both lines of text are in the same GameObject noti_txt .

If you want to align both textlines, you could use the align property of the text GameObject, on creating it. { align: 'center' }
(Or after creation with the property setStyle here a line to the documentation )

Here the adapted Code:

 var game = new Phaser.Game({ width: 320, height: 200, scene: { create: create } }); function create() { let noti_bg = this.add.rectangle(160, 100, 200, 120, 0x000000, .5); let noti_txt = this.add.text(0, 0, 'Magic is not ready yet\n\nwait a sec', { align: 'center' }); Phaser.Display.Align.In.Center(noti_txt, noti_bg); }

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Alternatively / Extra :
I would only recommended it, if you are reusing text blocks (or dramatic effect) , you could split the text, into to GameObjects.

But for that to work you would also have use the function Phaser.Display.Align.To.BottomCenter :

 var game = new Phaser.Game({ width: 320, height: 200, scene: { create: create } }); function create() { let noti_bg = this.add.rectangle(160, 100, 200, 120, 0x000000, .5); let noti_txt1 = this.add.text(0, 0, 'Magic is not ready yet'); let noti_txt2 = this.add.text(0, 0, 'wait a sec'); // extra visual effect this.tweens.add({ targets: noti_txt2, alpha: 0, ease: 'Power1', duration: 1000, yoyo: true, repeat: -1, }); Phaser.Display.Align.In.Center(noti_txt1, noti_bg); // Just adding a minor horizontal offset Phaser.Display.Align.To.BottomCenter(noti_txt2, noti_txt1, 0, 10); }

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