Advanced Hitboxes

ADSentertainment

When making an actor collide with another actor, is it possible to make it so that instead of having a hitbox in a rectangular/circular shape, it would have a hitbox in the SHAPE of the actor, eliminating all of the transparent pixels in it. for instance, gamesalad does rectangular and circular hitboxes (I assume a circular hitbox looks like that). is it at ALL possible to make a hitbox that would look like this?

tutyses

Not yet, but i read in the twitter questions that they will do in the future

robert.mccarthy

One way of doing it at the moment, is create a 'hitbox' actor. Put a rule to follow the position of your spaceship (dependent of where they are placed). Drag lots of this actor on the scene, resize each one to make them them fill the shape. Make them transparent.

This works for the moment, I have used similar on other games/tests.

ORBZ

Pro Tip: If you use a circular collision area but your actor is not square in shape (i.e it's rectangular) then the hit area will be the radius of 1/2 of the shorter side. This can be useful in situations where you want to have a "forgiving" collision area as the longer side will not be fully covered by the circle. There are no oval collision areas, just perfect circles and rectangles.

ADSentertainment

One way of doing it at the moment, is create a 'hitbox' actor. Put a rule to follow the position of your spaceship (dependent of where they are placed). Drag lots of this actor on the scene, resize each one to make them them fill the shape. Make them transparent.

This works for the moment, I have used similar on other games/tests.

I could see how that would work, but yet it would be a rather large amount of actors and would probably lag the game from the amount of actors in each ship in a level.