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Checking collision between Rectangle and Shape

In my game the player uses a Rectangle for his bounding box, he can do this because I only need to rotate the player image and not the acctual rectangle but for a eletric beam that one of the bosses ...
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andengine Tower Defence game - Enemy<-Weapon interaction

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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My logic in collision detection in diagonal code correct? [closed]

I made this code to detect collision from the diagonal(top left). I'm trying to find the problem on what I'm doing wrong. Is it necessary to have a diagonal collision for the wall? Player class: ...
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Detecting collision with a 3D array of boxes

I am at the stage of my development process where I want to implement collision. Now I can think of a simple way of doing it, if the camera's x, y or z are inside the position of a certain cube then ...
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how to detect when a character is walking on an item in java

I just want to know if there is a way in java to detect when the character is on an item on the floor without without verifying if every items on the map contains the character or vice versa in every ...
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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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Tile Based Collision Checking In Java?

I have my map stored in 2 arrays: Tiles : Tile names TileTypes : SOLID or BASIC I want to be able to walk through BASIC Tiles (Like ground tiles). But not the SOLID Tiles (Like wall tiles). I ...
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Java2D Collision Detection

I've been wrapping my head around Java2D collision detection. I am working with Slick library and trying to figure a simple clean code to check if a collision has occurred. The idea is fairly simple, ...
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Online MMO collision detection for players & walls

Let's assume the following: I have a server which stores the player's position (float x, float y, float z) Client sends the server it's updated position ever 250ms or so. Server has bounding boxes ...
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Collision detection tutorials [closed]

I'm supposed to develop a Java game using AWT and Applet libraries. I'm stuck with the concept of "collision detection". If you can help me with any tutorials that explain the concept (how it works) ...
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Find the footprint of an isometric entity

I'm working on making a 2D isometric engine in Java. I'm getting into collision detection and I've hit a bit of a problem. Characters in-game are not restricted to movement from tile to tile - they ...
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Tilemap collision detection strangeness [closed]

I have used this code, or code very similar to it, to detect collisions between rectangle shaped entities and a tilemap for a long time. When I read the code it seems to me that it is impossible for ...
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SFX Played Once per Collision or Hit

I have a question about using Box2D (engine for LibGDX used to make realistic physics). I observed on the code that I've made for the physics here below: @Override public boolean touchUp(int screenX, ...
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Collision checking problem on a Tiled map

I'm working on a pacman styled dungeon crawler, using the free oryx sprites. I've created the map using Tiled, separating the floor, walls and treasure in three different layers. After importing the ...
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Point of contact of 2 OBBs?

I'm working on the physics for my GTA2-like game so I can learn more about game physics. The collision detection and resolution are working great. I'm now just unsure how to compute the point of ...
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How to choose cell to put entity in in an uniform grid used for broad phase collision detection?

I'm trying to implement the broad phase of my collision detection algorithm. My game is an arcade game with lot of moving entities in an open space with relatively equivalent sizes. Regarding the ...
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Moving the jBullet collision body to with the player object

I am trying to update the location of the rigid body for a player class, as my player moves around I would like the collision body to also move with the player object (currently represented as a ...
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How a “Collision System” should be implemented?

My game is written using a entity system approach using Artemis Framework. Right know my collision detection is called from the Movement System but i'm wondering if it's a proper way to do collision ...
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Draw Rectangle To All Dimensions of Image

I have some rudimentary collision code: public class Collision { static boolean isColliding = false; static Rectangle player; static Rectangle female; public static void collision(){ Rectangle ...
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Platform game collisions with Block

I am trying to create a platform game and doing wrong collision detection with the blocks. Here's my code // Variables GTimer jump = new GTimer(1000); boolean onground = true; // The update method ...
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Fixing a collision detection bug in Slick2D

My game has a bug with collision detection. If you go against the wall and tap forward/back sometimes the game thinks the speed you travelled at is 0 and the game doesn't know how to get you out of ...
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jBullet Collision/Physics not working as expected

Below is the code for one of my objects in the game I am creating (yes although this is a cube, I am not making anything remotely like MineCraft), and my issue is I while the cube will display and is ...
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Error in my Separating Axis Theorem collision code [closed]

EDIT 2: Made some more alterations, now the one area i'm still confused on is: how to work out the vector to project on the separation axes? My projectOnto(..) method has some huge gaps now and i know ...
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Making an efficient collision detection system

I'm very new to game development (just started 3 months ago) and I'm learning through creating a game engine. It's located here. In terms of collision, I know only brute-force detection, in which ...
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Color based collision detection

I am making a game where you fly a ship around some randomly generated planets. Since I am using a for loop to draw over 5000 planets, using the rectangle class or an oval-type class for this is not ...
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Platformer Collision Error [closed]

I am currently working on a relatively simple platform game that has an odd bug.You start the game by falling onto the ground (you spawn a few blocks above the ground), but when you land your feet get ...
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Circle physics and collision using vectors

This is a problem I've been having, When making a set number of filled circles at random locations on a JPanel and applying a gravity (a negative change in the y), each of the circles collide. I want ...
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OpenGL Get Rotated X and Y of quad

I am developing a game in 2D using LWJGL library. So far I have a rotating box. I have done basic Rectangle collision, but it doesn't work for rotated rectangles. Does OpenGL have a function that ...
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Circle-Rectangle collision in a tile map game

I am making a 2D tile map based putt-putt game. I have collision detection working between the ball and the walls of the map, although when the ball collides at the meeting point between 2 tiles I ...
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Java 2D Tile Collision

I have been working on a way to do collision detection forever, and just can't figure it out. Here's my simple 2D array: for (int x = 0; x < 16; x++) { for (int y = 0; y < 16; y++) { ...
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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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sprite animation system height recalculating has some issues

Basically, the way it works is that it update the frame to show every let's say 24 ticks and every time the frame update, it recalculates the height and width of the new sprite to render so that my ...
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Colored Collision Detection

Several years ago, i made a fast collision detection for 2D, it was just checking a bullets front-pixel's color to check if it were to hit something. Lets say the target rgb color is (124,200,255) ...
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Gravity stops when side-collision detected [closed]

Please, look at this GIF: The label on the animation says "Move button is pressed, then released". And you can see when it's pressed (and player's getCenterY() is above wall getCenterY()), gravity ...
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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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Game Engine Collision Handler

I'm making a collision handler for a Java game engine. I made an interface called Collidable. I have a method called onCollision which takes the parameter of my Engine Game Object. public void ...
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Java: Tile-based Collision Detection with Rectangles

There are a few tile-based collision detection questions out there, but none seemed to suit my need. I guess I really would like to know why this method for collision detection isn't working. It ...
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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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Collision detection not working properly

I have some problems with collisions, the collision detection only works either on one x "line", or on one y "line". Example Heres the collision code: public void checkCollision() { for (int i ...
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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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Breakout ball collision detection, bouncing against the walls

I'm currently trying to program a breakout game to distribute it as an example game for my own game engine. http://game-engine-for-java.googlecode.com/ But the problem here is that I can't get the ...
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Collision detection - player gets stuck in platform when jumping

So I'm having some problems with my collision detection with my platformer. Take the image below as an example. When I'm running right I am unable to go through the platform, but when I hold my ...
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way to do if(x > x2) x = x2 with rotation?

Alright, so I got this walking code, and some collision detection, now the collision detection returns a Vector3f of the closest point on the triangle that the projected position is at (pos + move), ...
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Better way to go up/down slope based on yaw?

Alright, so I got a bit of movement code and I'm thinking I'm going to need to manually input when to go up/down a slope. All I got to work with is the slope's normal, and vector, and My current and ...
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Matrix loading problems with jbullet and lwjgl

The following code does not load the matrix correctly from jbullet. //box is a RigidBody Transform trans = new Transform(); trans = box.getMotionState().getWorldTransform(trans); float[] matrix = new ...
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Java - 2d Array Tile Map Collision

How would I go about making certain tiles in my array collide with my player? Like say I want every number 2 in the array to collide. I am reading my array from a txt file if that matters and I am ...
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Should my game handle collisions in the Player object?

I'm making a 2D platform game. Right now I'm just working on making a very generic Player class. I'm wondering if it would be more efficient/better practice to have an ActionListener within the Player ...
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Snake game - collision detection causing new position of apple to be rendered multiple times

I have a collision method implemented through the use of slick2d. When ever the snake collides with the apple, it causes the apple to be rendered in multiple places before the snake moves further ...
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Problems with moving 2D circle/box collision detection

This is my first game ever and I'm a newbie in computer physics. I've got this code for the collision detection and it works fine for BOTTOM and TOP collision.It miss the collision detection with the ...
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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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