Baby Battle

[devnull_2k]

That's ridiculous. Totally unneeded. He's obviously not hitTesting the entire babyMCs against eachother. That's the only problem. hitTest works fine.

The code you wrote IS hitTest!

[BlinkOk]

i think he might be talkin about this;
http://www.nlc.net.au/~oceana/games/collision3.swf
http://www.nlc.net.au/~oceana/games/collision3.zip
(try rotating both boxes about 45 degrees and then moving them so they are right next to each other, parallel, but not touching)
when you rotate an mc you distort it's bounding box and therefore introduce the possibility of a hittest returning true even though the two objects arn't touching. now the getbounds method is not perfect, it's just a little more accurate.

[AJ Infinity]

Originally posted by devnull_2k
That's ridiculous. Totally unneeded. He's obviously not hitTesting the entire babyMCs against eachother. That's the only problem. hitTest works fine.

The code you wrote IS hitTest!

My code makes the babies exert force on each other when they hit.

[devnull_2k]

heh, I apologize.

[BlinkOk]

me too

[Baukereg]

Sorry for interupting
This is my hitTest: otherbaby.hitTest(_x,_y,true)
It's not perfect, but also not to complicated. The bounds idea is good, but I don't want the babies to get stuck. The shape of the babies is to complicated. And as adityadennis says, it's a side projects, so I keep it this way.

Atleast here's an update:
http://regnerus.port5.com/babybattle/babybattle.htm

- Sound added
- Other picto's for the power-ups
- A chair added; I want more objects, to they're fighting in a livingroom or something

I removed the sterio panning (AJ Infinity, thanx for the words ), because it influences all the sound.

[AJ Infinity]

My code wasn't that complicated. It didn't test the whole contour of the babies, it just checked to see if their bounding boxes were colliding and made them apply force on each other so they wouldn't walk through each other (note they stop walking through each other when their centers touch, because of hitTest(x, y, true).) I suggest multiple getBounds() methods only for people who are good with math, though. hitTest() is a simple method. Read the collision detection chapters in Physics for Game Developers and Flash MX Game Design Demystified.

if(baby_1.hitTest(baby_2){
   if(baby_1._y > baby_2._y){
     baby_2._y = baby_1.getBounds(_root).yMax + 2;
 } else if(baby_1._y < baby_2._y){
     baby_2._y = baby_1.getBounds(_root).yMin - 2;
 }
  if(baby_1._x > baby_2._x){
     baby_2._y = baby_1.getBounds(_root).xMax + 2;
 } else if(baby_1._x < baby_2._x){
     baby_2._y = baby_1.getBounds(_root).xMin - 2;
 }
}