diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3a8a91682..423a34aca 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 * The Loader has been updated to handle the impact of you destroying the game instance while still processing files. It will no longer throw cache and texture related errors. Fix #4049 (thanks @pantoninho)
 * `TileSet.getTileData()` has been updated so it will return tile data from either Tiled 1.1.x or the new Tiled 1.2.x JSON structure. Fix #3998 (thanks @martin-pabst @halgorithm)
+* `Polygon.setTo` can now take a string of space separated numbers when creating the polygon data, i.e.: `'40 0 40 20 100 20 100 80 40 80 40 100 0 50'`. This update also impacts the Polygon Shape object, which can now also take this format as well.
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
diff --git a/src/gameobjects/shape/polygon/Polygon.js b/src/gameobjects/shape/polygon/Polygon.js
index 4feb77454..629bcdb30 100644
--- a/src/gameobjects/shape/polygon/Polygon.js
+++ b/src/gameobjects/shape/polygon/Polygon.js
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ var Smooth = require('../../../geom/polygon/Smooth');
  * The Polygon Shape is created by providing a list of points, which are then used to create an
  * internal Polygon geometry object. The points can be set from a variety of formats:
  *
+ * - A string containing paired values separated by a single space: `'40 0 40 20 100 20 100 80 40 80 40 100 0 50'`
  * - An array of Point or Vector2 objects: `[new Phaser.Math.Vec2(x1, y1), ...]`
  * - An array of objects with public x/y properties: `[obj1, obj2, ...]`
  * - An array of paired numbers that represent point coordinates: `[x1,y1, x2,y2, ...]`
diff --git a/src/geom/polygon/Polygon.js b/src/geom/polygon/Polygon.js
index fb60b3522..4689b73fa 100644
--- a/src/geom/polygon/Polygon.js
+++ b/src/geom/polygon/Polygon.js
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ var Polygon = new Class({
      *
      * The points can be set from a variety of formats:
      *
+     * - A string containing paired values separated by a single space: `'40 0 40 20 100 20 100 80 40 80 40 100 0 50'`
      * - An array of Point objects: `[new Phaser.Point(x1, y1), ...]`
      * - An array of objects with public x/y properties: `[obj1, obj2, ...]`
      * - An array of paired numbers that represent point coordinates: `[x1,y1, x2,y2, ...]`
@@ -90,6 +91,11 @@ var Polygon = new Class({
         this.area = 0;
         this.points = [];
 
+        if (typeof points === 'string')
+        {
+            points = points.split(' ');
+        }
+
         if (!Array.isArray(points))
         {
             return this;
@@ -103,10 +109,10 @@ var Polygon = new Class({
         {
             p = { x: 0, y: 0 };
 
-            if (typeof points[i] === 'number')
+            if (typeof points[i] === 'number' || typeof points[i] === 'string')
             {
-                p.x = points[i];
-                p.y = points[i + 1];
+                p.x = parseFloat(points[i]);
+                p.y = parseFloat(points[i + 1]);
                 i++;
             }
             else if (Array.isArray(points[i]))