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The determination of whether or not two or more entities make contact with each other during gameplay.

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color key collision [on hold]

I am in high school and am taking a class and I am making a plat former type game and I am ready for collision and i was wondering would color key collision work like if I make the platforms red and ...
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How do I detect collision with isometric walls?

I will use game called "Project Zomboid" as an example. Here is a pic how does it look > How should I handle player's collision with walls constructed like that? It's easy to handle walkable and ...
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Jumping over non-stationary objects without problems … 2-D platformer … how could this be solved? [closed]

You know this problem ... take Super Mario Bros. for example. When Mario/Luigi/etc. comes in proximity with a nearing pipe image an invisible boundary setter must prevent him from continuing forward ...
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Collision Detection Code Structure with Sloped Tiles

Im making a 2D tile based game with slopes, and I need help on the collision detection. This question is not about determining the vertical position of the player given the horizontal position when on ...
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2D fighting bounding boxes

I'm prototyping a 2D platformer/brawler game for uni and I'm having some trouble with creating collision/bounding boxes. This is most likely going to end up on a Vita so I do have some library ...
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Windows 8 desktop game development [closed]

I m keen to develop a physics game for windows 8 desktop. It includes 3 levels. I m willing to do it using C# , Xaml and sharpDx. But as i m naive to this, and have to develope it in 2 months ...
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2D Game Development dynamics in c++ [closed]

I am new to developing computer graphic applications in c++ using OpenGl. I want to develop games but I really am facing problems when it comes to understanding concepts like trajectory, collisions, ...
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3D Box Collision Data Import

I'm trying to implement a collision system using oriented bounding boxes, using a center for the box, it's extents as a 3D Vector and a rotation matrix, which is all stuff I picked up online and seem ...
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JBox2D Polygon Collisions Acting Strange

I have been playing around with JBox2D and Slick2D and made a little demo with a ground object, a box object, and two different polygons. The problem I am facing is that the collision-detection for ...
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Detailed Modern Opengl Tutorial? [duplicate]

I am asking for a specific modern opengl tutorial. I need a tutorial that does not skip to explain any lines of code. It should also include different independent objects moving/rotating (most ...
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2D game with 3D collision?

How do they do this bounce? Looks awfully complicated in 2D.
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Would it be more efficient to handle 2D collision detection with polygons, rather than both squares/polygons?

I'm working on a 2D game engine and I'm trying to get collision detection as efficient as possible. One thing I've noted is that I have a Rectangle Collision collider, a Shape (polygon) collider and a ...
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Java : 2D Collision Detection

I'm been working on 2D rectangle collision for weeks and still cannot get this problem fixed. The problem I'm having is how to adjust a player to obstacles when it collides. I'm referencing this link. ...
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LWJGL Java 2D collision when lagging

I'm using a tile based collision, but when the game is lagging (the lag isn't the problem) the collision fails and the player falls through tiles. This is the movement/collision detection code of my ...
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Adding Leniency to Jumping Mechanic

I have written some jumping code for my player in a platformer game. At the moment it has some basic logic which says that the player can jump if he is on the ground. The pseudocode looks something ...
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Problem with SAT collision detection overlap checking code

I'm trying to implement a script that detects whether two rotated rectangles collide for my game, using SAT (Separating Axis Theorem). I used the method explained in the following article for my ...
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Top down pygame collision detection

I'm writing a top down game and I'm trying to figure out how to make certain types of terrains impassable. I have a dictionary of sprites: terrains = [{"sprite": black}, {"sprite": dirt}, {"sprite": ...
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Ball vs 45-degree slope collision detection

I have a simple game in which the player moves a ball around. The ball bounces off of walls. Right now I have square walls(■) implemented: I use simple bounding-box collisions to check if the player ...
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Collision detection with multiple polygons simultaneously

I've written a collision system which detects/resolves collisions between a rectangular player and a convex polygon world using the Separating Axis Theorem. This scheme works fine when the player is ...
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some problems with collision detection

I've been working on some collision detection and i have managed to get it to know when it touches top bottom left or right, but now i need it so it prevents the rectangle to enter the rectangle and i ...
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Have the character automatically slide around obstacle corners [duplicate]

Like this: The player is only holding right, however the character still moves up a bit to go around an obstacle. My current collision system has access to: The entity's previous position The ...
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Performing intersection testing in world's or object's space?

Am adding basic ray casting and collision detection for my game, also adding bounding volumes/collision mesh. Given that the ray is cast in world space and each mesh's node can track world ...
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Falling Blocks and complex shapes

I currently have a simple Tetris-like game and have come across a problem I cannot solve. Unlike Tetris where there is a single falling shape, I have multiple, potentially interlocking shapes that ...
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Java platformer using Tiled maps

So here is the deal. I've been working on and off on my little platformer and im at the point for collision detection with the map. I have a method that generates a polygon on every tile and checks if ...
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Java collision detection with rectangles

I'm trying to get the collision between two squares. I've made a Rectangle object that overlays each one and updates the position every tick. Then I made a collision method that checks whether they ...
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Box2D Static-Dynamic body joint eliminates collisions

I have a static body A, and a dynamic body B, and a dynamic body C. A is filtered to not collide with anything, B and C collide with each other. I wish to create a joint between B and A. When I ...
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2D movement constraint to navigation mesh

You can jump to the question in bold if you wish. I'm working on an isometric view 3d game and currently trying to constraint the players movement to a navigation mesh. My current algorithm works as ...
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How do I implement collision detection with a sprite walking up a rocky-terrain hill?

I'm working in SDL and have bounding rectangles for collisions set up for each frame of the sprite's animation. However, I recently stumbled upon the issue of putting together collisions for ...
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Allowing a player to walk up and down slopes without resistance

I am trying to implement a platformer where both the player and the level are made up of arbitary polygons. One requirement is that the player can stand still on slopes, and walk up and down them ...
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Small, High-Speed Object Collisions: Avoiding Tunneling

EDIT/UPDATE: My biggest question right now is whether step 3's "t=..." equation is a good idea or there a better way to do it. Most other issues have been partially or fully addressed, but no ...
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How to simulate cylinder shape in collision detection?

AFAIK, many physics engines like Physx and Havok don't incorporate cylinder as basic shape because it is expensive than sphere, box and capsule. But bullet engine does incorporate cylinder as a basic ...
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Collision detection - relative distance

Assume an object move toward a polygon board in 3D field . In order to detect whether the object collide in the board , according to the lecture notes of my Computer Graphics Course lecturer - it ...
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Robust “soft” platform collision using SAT

We'll start with the questions, then a pile of background: How do you rigorously and thoroughly define "soft collision" of the Mario-esque type (if I start above, or in a jump my feet apex above a ...
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Not detecting collision with keybindings?

So in my little side scroller java game I'm attempting to make collision for my character against walls. I am using keybindings instead of key listeners because of the focusing issues it often caused. ...
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cocos2d collision detection between two ccsprites i am using boundingBox but this method is not working

I am making a cocos2d side scroller and I am currently putting collision detection in. I have an enemy that shoots at the player. I want to have the bullets disappear when they hit the player. The ...
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Help choosing a collision prediction method?

This takes a little backstory, bear with me. This is also a very general question, and I'm aware that without greater specifics the best answer might be "it depends." So the context is that we're ...
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Finding a normal vector

I'm trying to replace my old integer based movement and collision system with a vector system, because its more precise and more flexible. I want to implement wall sliding, such that if a player hits ...
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Having to check collisions twice per game tic

I have vertically moving elevators (3 solid tiles wide) and static solid tiles. Each are separate entities and therefore have their own respective collision routines (to check for, and resolve, ...
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Pygame - CollideRect - But How Do They Collide?

I'm having some trouble figuring out how I can handle collisions that are specifically colliding on the top or bottom a rect. How can specify those collisions? Here's a little code snippet to give ...
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Moving bounding box in 3D using Libgdx

How do i go about moving a bounding box in libgdx? I want to make the bounding box capture my character and move with him. So ideally i want to be able to copy my vector 3 from my model instance and ...
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How to cancel out simultaneous collisions in libGosu?

I am working on an Asteroids remake. When the player's bullets hit a large meteor, it should break apart into 2 smaller meteors. This works when the player is only firing one bullet, but when the ...
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How to identify whether the boundingvolume intersects with walls or floor when it doesnt return normals?

My game in jMonkey is the kind that use will have to place objects in a scene (which consist of walls and slabs and floor). All my models are centered at origin. When the user click a point I use ray ...
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Reusable top-down collision class

I've recently picked up monogame and am working on a simple top down game to get me started and learn the basics. I've got the movement and the rotation to follow the mouse sorted out but I'm stuck ...
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Pixel Perfect Collision Detection in Cocos2dx

I am trying to port the pixel perfect collision detection in Cocos2d-x the original version was made for Cocos2D and can be found here: ...
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How to place an object so that it does not overlap the objects in my scene?

In my game, the user has to click at a point to place an object (mesh). I can cast a ray and find the horizontal point where the object can be translated and then attached to rootNode to display it. ...
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Collision Detection problems for vertically moving platforms

Background My game is a static screen (ie, no scrolling) 2d platformer and my CD routine is split into 2 - after vertical movements, (ie, gravity etc) I check for collisions, and if they are ...
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Rectangle collision doesn't work on WP 8

Collision detection is not working correctly when my 64x64 pixel block touches a bigger block. The big(rect2big) block measures 128x128 pixel. The falling block should change it's color to black when ...
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Collision detection with an irregular curve

I'm building a custom physics engine to accompany a level-editor. This image shows how the level-editor outputs levels: Now, some explanation is in order. The curve is defined by the red points. ...
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Simple 3D collision detection for general polyhedra

I have correctly set up a SAT system. I now need to determine a simple, fast, and general purpose collision detection mechanism to identify the collision points. These points will then be used to ...
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Collision Issues

When I run the collision code, there are no errors, but when I shoot the enemy nothing happens..... Any problems that are blindingly obvious? Class Level Variables public Model model { get; ...

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