Collision/bounce issue

saltysalt

Hello, I'm making a game that's based around bouncing a ball against triangle bumpers into a "goal". I was able to get the angle down when the ball collides but it's bumping too early as if there is something there. I'm using a cropped triangle PNG image. Can anyone help?

ktfright

idk, but it might be that the actor still thinks it is a square instead of a triangle. even if it is a triangle, that invisible part of the actor might still be there - even if you cropped it. hope that helped a little bit.

CodeMonkey

Thanks for the help with the forum responses ktfright. Keep up the good work.

saltysalt, as ktfright said, the actor is using a box defined by its width and length for collision. So currently this is the only way collision works. We are looking into collision for shapes other than boxes.

However, here are a couple of tips.

If your triangle actor is always on the bottom of the screen, you can can rotate the actor 45 degrees and use the corner of the box as the triangle.

If you make 3 thin actors, you can make the sides of the triangle. However, rotating the "super-actor" made by the 3 actors would be a tough problem.

Scuba_Games

Any updates on this?

I could really use triangle collision for my next game.

Scuba_Games

bump!!

scitunes

This is not going to happen anytime soon. Just FYI