Custom Hitboxes are Giving me a Hard Time
Caleb Burns Games
Member, BASIC Posts: 6
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to create a custom hitbox for the robot shown below, and it's giving me the "valid shape file was not selected" message. From what I've heard, Gamesalad uses a black-and-white PNG system for custom hitboxes, and it previously used JSON, but neither have worked for me.
See attached the robot sprite and hitbox. Gamesalad rejected the hitbox when I tried to submit it.
For context, the white box is 100x100 to abide by the game's spacing. Auto-trace won't work well for movement in the stages.
Caleb Burns at www.calebburnsgames.com (not up yet, but coming soon!)
Comments
GameSalad doesn't do image based custom hitboxes, you will need to use the JSON based ones. Creator 2 has a tool to automatically generate hit boxes from images based on transparency. Let me know if you need more detail on that!
@adent42 I've tried to do JSON but it hasn't worked yet, I'm just looking for a simple 100x100 square, and I have the software to do it, but it has not accepted it whenever I tried to submit one.
Here's the JSON code for what I want to add in, do you know how I can make Gamesalad accept it?
{"rigidBodies":[{"name":"Square","imagePath":null,"origin":{"x":0,"y":0},"polygons":[[{"x":0,"y":0},{"x":100,"y":0},{"x":100,"y":100},{"x":0,"y":100}]],"circles":[],"shapes":[{"type":"POLYGON","vertices":[{"x":0,"y":0},{"x":100,"y":0},{"x":100,"y":100},{"x":0,"y":100}]}]}],"dynamicObjects":[]}
Here's the readable version:
{
"rigidBodies": [
{
"name": "Square",
"imagePath": null,
"origin": {
"x": 0,
"y": 0
},
"polygons": [
[
{
"x": 0,
"y": 0
},
{
"x": 100,
"y": 0
},
{
"x": 100,
"y": 100
},
{
"x": 0,
"y": 100
}
]
],
"circles": [],
"shapes": [
{
"type": "POLYGON",
"vertices": [
{
"x": 0,
"y": 0
},
{
"x": 100,
"y": 0
},
{
"x": 100,
"y": 100
},
{
"x": 0,
"y": 100
}
]
}
]
}
],
"dynamicObjects": []
}
Thank you for the help!
Caleb Burns at www.calebburnsgames.com (not up yet, but coming soon!)