making actors colision volume smaller than actor

rhinokey

any way to make the objects collision area smaller than the actual actor volume, or any way to control collision more than just rectangle or circle?

tatiang

The only way to make a collision area smaller than the actual actor's size is to constrain another actor to that actor's position and make all of your collide rules dependent on the smaller "mask" actor.

GameSalad does not currently support irregular or custom collision shapes, so you're limited to rectangle or circle.

3xL

Actually one way you
Can try us changing the colission shape to circle. I personally have tried this and it works at times. Not all the time but alot of times. Try it out

MotherHoose

another way … use the X and Y positions of the player to trigger behaviors when colliding

demo: http://www.mediafire.com/?rosb8ns79etnib8

MH

BigCat

Personally - I think it's incredibly sad that this product doesn't support alpha channel collision masks. Not just sad - but a bit pathetic.

grierdill

here's my question though. So if you create a new actor that's smaller to deal with collisions, does that mean you have to make a ton of attributes in your scene to deal with every kind of collision so that the ACTUAL actor can reference the collisions and be effected?

tatiang

No. You would want to unlock scene so that the ACTUAL actor can access the attributes of the collision "mask" actor.

grierdill

ahhh, I always forget about that