World

A world is an object that contains all bodies and joints.

Create a new world with love.physics.newWorld.

A world can call these functions:

Functions

World:destroy	Destroys the world.
World:getAllowSleeping	Returns the sleep behaviour of the world.
World:getBodies	Returns a table with all bodies.
World:getBodyCount	Returns the number of bodies in the world.
World:getBodyList	Returns a table with all bodies.
World:getCallbacks	Returns functions for the callbacks during the world update.
World:getContactCount	Returns the number of contacts in the world.
World:getContactFilter	Returns the function for collision filtering.
World:getContactList	Returns a table with all contacts.
World:getContacts	Returns a table with all Contacts.
World:getGravity	Get the gravity of the world.
World:getJointCount	Returns the number of joints in the world.
World:getJointList	Returns a table with all joints.
World:getJoints	Returns a table with all joints.
World:getMeter	Get the scale of the world.
World:getShapesInArea	Gets a list of Shapes inside the specified area
World:isAllowSleep	Get the sleep behaviour of the world.
World:isDestroyed	Gets whether the World is destroyed.
World:isLocked	Returns if the world is updating its state.
World:isSleepingAllowed	Gets the sleep behaviour of the world.
World:queryBoundingBox	Calls a function for each fixture inside the specified area.
World:queryShapesInArea	Calls a function for each Shape inside the specified area.
World:rayCast	Casts a ray and calls a function with the fixtures that intersect it.
World:rayCastAny	Casts a ray and returns an intersection point if the ray touched any Shape in the world.
World:rayCastClosest	Casts a ray and returns the intersection point of the closest Shape touched by the ray, if any.
World:setAllowSleep	Set the sleep behaviour of the world.
World:setAllowSleeping	Sets the sleep behaviour of the world.
World:setCallbacks	Sets functions to be called when shapes collide.
World:setContactFilter	Sets a function for collision filtering.
World:setGravity	Set the gravity of the world.
World:setMeter	Set the scale of the world.
World:setSleepingAllowed	Sets the sleep behaviour of the world.
World:translateOrigin	Translates the World's origin.
World:update	Update the state of the world.

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.newWorld

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