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Android cocos2d getting collision detection to work only on some frames of animation

I have an animated bomb sprite in my game and use CGRect for collision detection: for (CCSprite bomb : _bombs) { CGRect bombRect = CGRect.make(bomb.getPosition().x - (scaleFactor * ...
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andengine Tower Defence game - Enemy<-Weapon interaction [migrated]

What is the most correct from the performance point of view - algorithm of interaction between Enemy and Weapon(bullet maybe more correct here) ? Should every sprite every single bullet check for ...
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Collision detection problems using AABB's

I implemented a simple collision detection routine using AABB's between my main game sprite and various platforms (Please see code below). It works great, but I'm now introducing gravity to make my ...
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Android: Switch(swipe) places on two images [closed]

I have two images next to each other and I want to switch their places with a swipe. I made collision detection but I don't now how to swipe and change their positions. I'm really new at this, so ...
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Detecting collision between ball (circle) and brick(rectangle)?

Ok so this is for a small uni project. My lecturer provided me with a framework for a simple brickbreaker game. I am currently trying to overcome to problem of detecting a collision between the two ...
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How to detect screen boundary using AndEngine GLES1?

I am using the AnalogOnScreenControl to move my sprite around the screen. I would like to restrict the sprite so it can not move outside the screen boundaries. I have tried putting a line at the ...
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Randomly spawning bitmaps on cnvas

I need some ideas in order to finish algorithm. I'm randomly placing objects (bitmaps) on canvas without overlapping. Time needed to finish it is my problem. When I need to spawn for example 80% of ...
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Collision between sprites in game programming?

I've since just started coding for an android game using eclipse. I've read Beginning Android Game Programming and various other e-books. Recently, I've encountered a problem with collision between ...
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Adding delay between damage

I have a bunch of enemies chasing my main-character, and if they intersect I want them to damage him and that's all good. The problem is that right now they damage him as long as they stand around ...
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how to solve ArrayList outOfBoundsExeption?

Im getting: 09-02 17:15:39.140: E/AndroidRuntime(533): java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Invalid index 1, size is 1 09-02 17:15:39.140: E/AndroidRuntime(533): at ...
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Java Collision Detection of a Slope using a Gradient [closed]

Im testing out collision detection for a game, The ball is traveling and i need to know when the ball hits a sloped line. For this example i have used the whole screen, with a sloped line going from ...
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Circle collision with a specific tile on a grid

Does anyone know of a good tutorial that will show collision detection on a 2d game platform without using any engines?
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Android Touch Event Collision Detection [closed]

I'm relatively new to both Java and Android, so hopefully the problem I'm having is stemming from something pretty minor that I've overlooked. I've got a (very early stage) game that I've started ...
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How create a respawn area in a tiled map

I'm creating a RPG game, I need to create a monster respawn area like the Pokemon games where if I walk through the long grass areas a Pokemon can appear. I already created the battle scene, I've seen ...
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Pixel perfect collision detection between sprite and animated sprite

I am trying to make a collision between a sprite and an animated sprite. The animated sprite is the main character of the game. The problem I am facing is that when another sprite collides with the ...
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How can I improve this collision detection logic?

I’m trying to make an android game and I’m having a bit of trouble getting the collision detection to work. It works sometimes but my conditions aren’t specific enough and my program gets it wrong. ...
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How to detect collisions between bullet and alien

I am designing a game for Android using Surface View. When a bullet hits any point on an alien it should blow the alien up. I wrote some code to detect collisions, but my code only triggers when my ...
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Sprite collisions in android andengine

I'm developing a simple game by andengine. I have 10 balls which are moving randomly on screen.i'm importing the balls as picture in sprites.if they move at the same coordinate , they pass though ...
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Android Java rectangle collision detection not working

I had been hard coding a collision detection system which was buggy. Then I came across using rectangles for collsion detection. So I put it all in and it does not work, I put a log in and it never ...
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How to implement a 2d collision detection for Android

I am making a 2d space shooter using opengl ES. Can someone please show me how to implement a collision detection between the enemy ship and player ship. The code for the two classes are below: ...
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Polygon Collision Detection Android

I am starting to try and figure out polygon collision detection in my Android game. I am currently doing pixel level collision detection and it just seems to be too slow (though it works). I was ...
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Which Side Was Hit?

I am working on an Android game and I have two objects A and B (both rectangles) and when they collide I simply want to know which side of B was hit. I have detected the collision fine, but I am ...
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How to handle pixel-perfect collision detection with rotation?

Does anyone have any ideas how to go about achieving rotational pixel-perfect collision detection with Bitmaps in Android? Or in general for that matter? I have pixel arrays currently but I don't know ...
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Detecting image curve to move a truck on this surface

I have an image background in surface view I want to move something according to black surface.But i can not do this using height of this image as it return same height.and one more thing ...
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Android pong clone, having trouble getting the paddle to stop at the screen edge

Well, I'm obviously very new to game dev and android. I've got a ball bouncing around (successfully detecting screen edge collision so that the bitmap stays within screen) and a paddle that the user ...
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How to move a 2d sprite to a target location while avoiding obstacles?

How can I get a 2d sprite to move to a position clicked on the screen, without bumping into other objects? I'm programming in java using the android API library I have created a surface view and ...
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Collision detection problem

I am a novice in android. It's my first game, so I am trying to make a frogger clone. I am getting a problem in collision detection. In logcat, even though the frog is not moving and not colliding ...
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What is wrong with my collision detection code?

I want to check collision detection between two bitmaps but I am not getting how to do it. I read several queries and tutorials but didnt get properly. I want to check by their width and height. I ...
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Android Fling Gesture, Animation And Collision - Resources?

I'm starting work on a 2D Android game where the player will put their finger on a game piece and do a fling gesture to throw the piece across the gameboard. I've gone through some Android ...
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How do I detect pixel-level collision using andEngine?

I'm developing a game for Android using andEngine, and I need to detect collisions only when two objects visually collide (not in blank space of the image). In J2ME, I'm able to do that using ...
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How can we match polygon data structure with a background image

I am referring to this fireball game. The ball will collide with background, which is in polygon form. I was wondering, how I can match my polygon data structure with the background image. Say, I ...
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Collision Error

I am having trouble with collision detection part of the game. I am using touch events to fire the gun as you will see in the video. Note, the android icon is a temporary graphic for the bullets ...
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Bitmap & Object Collision Help

Is it possible to detect when an object and a bitmap collide. I have an arraylist of sprites that I am shooting with an image. I tried using this method here but as soon as the bitmap appears the ...
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Java/Android pixel perfect hit detection

I am making a game for android which I need hit detection between two objects. The first bitmap I have is a flying superhero, and the second bitmap is anything that he collides with. The superhero ...
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Android collision detection of a 3d object based on a 2d projection

I am writing a game for android. We have an orthographic view setup, but the characters (ships, projectiles, etc). The enemies / characters will be able to rotate about the x axis. The problem is that ...
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per pixel based collision detection

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to get per pixel collision detection for the android. I saw that the andEngine has great collision detection on rotation as well but couldn't see where ...