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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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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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Box2D: Efficient method to create b2Chainshapes for a tile-based map?

I'm working on a platforming game with tile based levels. I store the collision model for my tileset in an array. This is how the collision model for a 4x4 tilesheet would look like (I can't post ...
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beginContact triggered more than once on some objects

Short version: It looks like beginContact is detecting continuous collisions. I'd like to avoid that. Long version : I use Box2Dweb to write a 2D platformer. It's my first game using this lib, and, ...
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Is there a “box2d without physics” lib (only for collision detection)?

Box2d Collision detection algorithms are probably the best ones out there. Unfortunately, they are bundled together with a realistic physics engine that I don't need. Is there an open source project ...
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How do I get the compression on specific dynamic body

Sorry, I could not find any tag that would suit my question. Let me first show you the image and then write what I want to do: I'm using box2D. As you can see there are three dynamic bodies ...
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Understanding Box2d Restitution & Bouncing

I'm currently trying to implement basketball bouncing into my game using Box2d (jBox2d technically), but I'm a bit confused about restitution. While trying to create the ball in the testbed first, ...
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Collision Filtering in Box2D

I have four bodies in my Box2D World. Each are polygon shape, with some physics parameters. Now when the game start, I need one of the bodies from the World (BodyA) to not be allowed to collide with ...
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box2d with lines

I have a very simple platform game builder and I've specified the ceilings, walls and floor as line segments. A line has a winding, or normal; you can determine the direction that a line should be ...
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What algorithms exist for generating collision geometry from an image?

I am currently working on a game using SFML and Box2D. I am interested in generating collision geometry from the sprite data that I load into SFML. So, for example, an algorithm that would do this ...
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Cocos2d Box2d contact listener call different method in collided object

I have the building object, wen it hit with other, i want to call some method inside it. Building.mm -(void)printTest { NSLog(@"printTest method work correctly"); } in my ContactListener i ...
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Box 2D Collision Question

I am very new to Box 2D Physics world. I wanted to know how to collide 2 bodies when one is Dynamic and other is Kinematic. The whole Scenario is explained below: I have 3 balls in total. I want to ...
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Do I need to roll my own polygon segmentation algorithm to automate Box2d body creation from a tile map?

Before re-inventing the wheel I figured I'd ask: I'm working on a tile-based 2d-maze level generator for cocos2d + box2d. The idea is: I'm using one of the well-known graph traversal algorithms to ...
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Check for bodies within a specific circle in Box2D

I'm trying to find positions to insert new bodies into my world. For that, I'd like to have a "free" spot where this body wouldn't overlap with anything else. So my plan was to sample "random" ...
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Box2d and sprites

i have really little practice with box2d, but basically it seems to me that it is possible to attach to every sprite (in a 2d game) a box2d shape (that is, a bounding box enclosing the sprite itself) ...
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Box 2d and really complex big shapes

I intended to use jbox2d for my project. But as I went deeper into it's manual I'd found out that it supports dynamic objects between 0.1 and 10 meters (if use scaling and assume that 0.1 is smallest ...
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How to detect collisions in AS3?

I'm trying to make a simple game, when the ball falls into certain block, you win. Mechanics: The ball falls through several obstacles, in the end there are two blocks, if the ball touches the left ...
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Clean way to detect collision of object with box2d

I have been looking into box2d (in java with libgdx) lately and have been trying to create my own custom bounce effect (I increase the Restitution after the first bounce) To do this as a test I ...
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How can I cancel a contact in a b2ContactListener?

To know when contacts happen we can derive from b2ContactListener and implement our own solution which is great. I'm wondering is there anyway we can cancel a contact, that is to say when we hit begin ...
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Ball bouncing within polygon

I saw there are quite a number of articles and sample code regarding ball bouncing within a rectangle. Is there any articles or sample code regarding ball bouncing within a polygon? I try to look ...
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2D Rope Collision Detection

I'm wanting to create a rope that can collide with objects like in the following youtube video: 2D Game Physics Rope I'm thinking that you implement the verlet integration which uses points and ...