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How do I make good guy attacks only hit bad guys and vice versa?
My game has many different type of good guys and many different type of bad guys. They will all be firing projectiles at each other but I don't want any accidental collateral damage to occur for ...
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Collision detection issue on 2D game engine with isometric game graphics [duplicate]
Let me first show you an example of issue so you'll see the problem.
http://i.imgur.com/dTxJIN7.jpg
The player object has red colored collision borders. Since I'm using an 2D engine, his head ...
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When I create more than one boundary, every one but the most recent breaks [closed]
So basically what I have is a function called createBoxBoundary, which, when the player position is within certain limits, sets boundary variables to true. Pretty straightforward. However, when I call ...
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1answer
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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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Swept sphere to line segment intersection in 2D
How can you determine when a moving sphere intersects a line segment, and the normal of that intersection?
Ideally Javascript, but anything that's tidy, simple and self-contained and easy to port to ...
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Efficient collision detection - tile based HTML5/Javascript game
I'm building a basic RPG game and I'm looking at collisions/pickups etc now.
It's tile based and I'm using HTML5 and Javascript.
I use a 2D array to create my tilemap.
I'm currently using a switch ...
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1answer
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HTML5 platformer collision detection problem
I'm working on a 2D platformer game, and I'm having a lot of trouble with collision detection. I've looked trough some tutorials, questions asked here and Stackoverflow, but I guess I'm just too dumb ...
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5answers
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2D Collision detection for Pinball Game
So far in previous games I have used simple 2D collision with boxes then checking at pixel level for a collision.
If making a pinball game in nearly a lot of frames the ball will be in contact with a ...
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How to handle 3D collisions using raycasting (with a reflection vector?)
I'm making a game using THREE.JS, and I want my character to walk on the terrain, and collide with static 3D objects (=AABB boxes) that are on that terrain.
The problem is: THREE.JS has only a ...
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Platformer movement and collisions
I'm working on a platformer but I'm stuck at the player movement and collisions.
Right now I'm not including the grid at all in the movement, but it's time I do it. I've read this article on how to ...
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2answers
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What is the best way to handle simultaneous collisions in a physics engine?
I'm writing a 2d physics engine in javascript so that I can learn more about physics in video games. I have it working correctly for rigid body collisions, except for if any body collides with two or ...
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4answers
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2D Collision in Canvas - Balls Overlapping When Velocity is High
I am doing a simple experiment in canvas using Javascript in which some balls will be thrown on the screen with some initial velocity and then they will bounce on colliding with each other or with the ...
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1answer
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Collision detection in multiplayer games
This a followup to my previous question: How to implement physics and AoE spells in an MMO game?.
There, we concluded that all physics have to be done on the server, and that I should use cylinders ...
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2answers
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Deactivate keyboard input on collision
I'm creating an online-canvas-game with a tank as player object.
Now I have several structures in my canvas, that shouldn't be able to be overdriven by the tank...
My solution is to detect the ...
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1answer
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Collision within a poly
For an html5 engine I'm making, for speed I'm using a path poly. I'm having trouble trying to find ways to get collision with the walls of the poly. To make it simple I just have a vector for the ...
