flash hitTests are inaccurate any ways around this?

[tidenburg]

As you may know flash hitTests are terrible for round objects as the 'collision' is only measures by a bounding box or collision! is there anyway to make this more precise?

Ive seen games like mousehunter and when i was playing it, i was interested how the explosion's hitTest was not counted by the bounding box but by the circle itself, how would i achieve that effect?

[Dominicaninja]

From the Knowledgebase:
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...0&pagenumber=1

Check out the Knowledgebase whenever you have a question. Lots of times someone else has had the same problem as you. Good luck!

[VENGEANCE MX]

http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/tutorials.html

Read 'em.

Also, the explosion collision in mouse hunter could've been done with hitTest, all you have to do is enable the shapeFlag parameter. However, it's more likely that they just checked the distance between the cursor and the centre of the explosion and checked if it was less than the explosion's radius.

[WilloughbyJackson]

Also see the following thread:
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=678058