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Collision detection is the determination of whether or not two or more entities make contact with each other during gameplay.

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Elastic Collisions in Unity 2D

I am trying to create elastic collisions in 2d game in unity. I have a ball surrounded with a polygon collider and im calculating the reflected vector using the ball velocity and the normal at the ...
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Player disappears when it collides with a tagged object

I am working on a simple game where the goal is to help a Player catch specific objects with a tag "Present". After taking care of the models, animations I am now working on the collisions and ...
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Preserving original direction when collision changes direction

I have sliding for player characters and it's working, but running into a small issue. The original direction gets lost, and I'm unable to resume the original direction. My characters have a ...
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Catch blocks while dodging other elements game

I'm working on this game where the user gets points for catching the right falling colour block. If the user catches the wrong colour block they will loose the game. For ex: I assign the user to ...
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Obb vs triangle test is incorrect

I have programmed Obb vs Triangle test from https://www.geometrictools.com/Documentation/DynamicCollisionDetection.pdf. However, when I run the test, I got incorrect results. I have this test case: <...
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How to differentiate landing on top of an object from falling down the side?

I am looking for a conceptual solution to my problem. It's a simple platformer-alike game where player can move horizontally during free-fall. Consider those two cases: In the first case, from game ...
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Don't block Camera with Blocking Volume in Unreal Engine

I use Blocking Volumes to prevent players from falling off platforms in a third-person perspective game in UE4. These Blocking Volumes however block the camera, as if they were a physical wall. How ...
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How to detect collision while the animation is running to move an object to the next coordinate?

I implemented SAT collision detection in Python with the GUI library pygame. It is working well, except when the objects are going too fast. I have velocity and acceleration variables. For each loop ...
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body_entered signal won't emit when rigidbody collided to rigidbody

I have multiple rigidbody object floating away in the space. When they hit each other, they push away each. I want to destroy object if they hit something, but connect body_entered signal won't ...
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Pybox2d Collision detection explanation

Hi I am working on a PyBox2D game and it became quite complex and I need to learn about collisions, so I made this very simple script in order to learn collision setting more effectively, however I am ...
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RigidBody Collision Handling with Verlet Integration

Hi I'm reading the Jakobsen Paper "Advanced Character Physics" which explains how the verlet integration along with a tetrahedron (4 particles) can form a structure usable for rigidbody (with 6 length ...
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How to detect a collision and collision impact?

I would like to calculate "impact" of collision if its the right word for it. My scenario is: I have player, who is driving his vehicle. He then hits the wall while still in vehicle. I want to know if ...
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Unity get reference of GameObject under another GameObject

I am trying to get reference of the object underneath my Player. I don't know if I am aproaching this correctly. Right now, I have a player simply put in the scene, like this: Then I am trying to ...
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Resolving collisions after initial collision

Given a sweep test for a ray, how do we check collisions after the 1st collision has been detected, and the ray has been deflected. Physics system steps are: Update velocities (gravity, etc) Resolve ...
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Unity 3D move kinematic rigidbody

I'm trying to move a kinematic rigidbody (a spaceship) with this code: ...
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3D line segment AABB collision, with hit normal?

I'm embarrassed I can't find this, but I'm wanting to detect intersection with a 3D line segment (not an infinite ray) with a 3D AABB, the AABB being defined as two Vec3f's which represent the Min and ...
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Detect collision on explosion

I am creating spells for my game. The collision with a normal fireball works just fine, what I am trying to achieve is to have the player_2 getting hit when the ...
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Numerical errors in Player collision offset causing player to fall through the ground the next frame, how to avoid?

I'm trying to implement player physics with arbitrary objects, in this case, a bunch of cubes. I wanted to add a "floor" so in my cube collision function, I added the following following lines: <...
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How do I detect collisions between a point and a sloped line?

The character in my game constantly falls due to gravity, so i have to detect the collision between the bottom point of the character and the tile slope line on the same x coordinate. The character ...
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How to make wheelcollider not stutter when moving on high speed?

I have a wheelcollider attached on a rigidbody and i move the object using : "transform.position += transform.forward * speed * input.getkey(keycode.uparrow)" And when the speed increasing the ...
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Both Trigger and Collision BoxCollider2D

My Player sprite needs to collide with some objects and be unable to pass through them and in other cases detect when it passes through some object (e.g. some non-...
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Get Closest point between a Box 3D and a Point

I have a point A (x, y, z), and a Box: Center (x, y, z), Size (Width, Height) How to get the closest point in the box from the point A ? In Unity I can create a bound, and I can find the non-rotated ...
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Space game scene boundaries

I've been trying to add boundaries to my space game. I've been following this tutorial with a sphere instead of a cube, but every time I start the game and move or rotate my ship it appears outside ...
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Quadtree for AABB collision boxes

I have a whole bunch of entities constantly being processed and testing for collisions. I've tried to optimize this by stopping certain entity types from checking each other, dead entities not being ...
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3D Collisions - Walking below a slope pushes me through the floor

Here's a really short video (less than 30s) of this issue : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrKbpTY8cMU When I move the player towards a slope (the player is below it), it pushes the player inside ...
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Box2D Weird collision behavior

I'll let the gif speak first. As you can see, the small cube just kinda floats there like it has a forcefield. This weird glitch only happens with small cubes, smaller than 60 pixels for some reason. ...
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How to handle objects at the edges of spatial partition cells?

A lot of games store object positions as floats and have a closed ball for the game area (eg. a rectangle and objects are allowed to have position coordinates on all 4 edges). However, this becomes ...
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why child class can access object while parent can't

I have Block class which is the parent and StandardBlock the child , the prefab block have StandardBlock script attached to it, and according to my small knowledge in inheriting I though this would ...
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How To Resolve Collision Before it Occurs

I have 2 objects, A and B, in a 2 dimensional space. If I know A is trying to move by vector M (that is to add vector M to the positional vector of A), and that A will collide with B after A moves, ...
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Using logic gates for Sprite Collision Detection - humor an old fart please

Im an old coder who came back so to speak, learning Java I know what I want but I cannot find anyone asking it anywhere so here goes... Im writing a basic tank game to code for practice but as is ...
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The collision log is displayed only for the original obstacle and not for the duplicates

This is my first game attempt and I'm trying to create a game where my player (a box) stops whenever it collides with an obstacle. However, the log for the collision is only displayed when the player ...
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Collision Detection For A Maze/Cave

I have a simple code written in Processing 3.x that I am using to test out the collision detection for a cave/maze. The code is here: https://github.com/NoahJon3s/New-Journey-The-Game/blob/master/...
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Somebody tell me, how can i do normal collision in pico?

Some month ago I found information about pico8 and began do something. But now i have problem. I want to create square with move on the flat, but i don't understand, how to make the collision?
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Moving point (as line)-Polygon collision detection

i've reached a good point with my engine, with static/instant collision detection and callbacks in case of collision. By instant collision detection i mean: Object A moves from x1y1 to x2y2 Check if ...
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brick breaker game - object collision problem - ball get's stuck in corners

I'm working on a game of brick breaker and I've encountered a problem that I can't figure out. whenever the ball collides with the corners of the peddle it starts vibrating (it's Yspeed vector changes ...
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Stop the player to prevent it from being thrown away after collision

I'm trying to write a script where when the player (kinematic) comes up against an enemy he stops, jumps and gets dynamic again. The problem is that when it returns dynamic it is thrown away and does ...
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What is wrong with my collision detection?

I am trying to create a collision detection system between block using this code: ...
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What to do with collision detection?

I am able to get collision detection (CD) into my game but... what do I do with it? Do I push the player back to the last location? Something else? I am programming the game in C++ using the Irrlicht ...
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Dragging a Rigidbody2D without passing through obstacles

I have this body of code written for an object that needs to be an obstacle and another object that is draggable. I have colliders on both and a kinematic rigidbody on the draggable object, but the ...
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Keep my 3d player from jumping if he's not on the Ground [duplicate]

I'm making a 3d game, and I have only made games in 2D before, but i have used blender before too. My player can now walk and jump, but he is not limited to only jumping of the ground. In 2D, you ...
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How to construct this collision vector?

I have a 3d game, but for movement I use only two axes (X and Z) - X is vertical, Z is horizontal Here's what I'm trying to achieve: Player is the circle, InputDirection is Blue, NewInputDirection ...
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Character blocking when walking on cube edges

I have my character walking on a ground made of cube. (scale 1,1,1). There is no space between them. Also, I have a RigidBody with 15 drag and I'm moving with <...
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Collision detection and solution causes teleportation on corners

I am making my own game engine on Python and I got stuck with collision between objects. ...
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OverlapBox() dimensions are huge but are fine when tested in isolation

To be completely transparent, I more-or-less copied this question from the Unity forums since I did not get a reply. I'm creating this system where I'm placing level chunks together and I need to ...
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Top-down 2D push angle velocity

I'm trying to determine the angle NPCs are pushed in when the PLAYER collides with them, like how 'Retro City Rampage' and 'Shakedown Hawaii' do when you bump in pedestrians. Here the PLAYER (green) ...
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chunk based collision

I have been trying to figure out why my collision tiles act so strange; I put I collision tile above a normal chunk based tile but it seems to not work - the collision tiles seem to appear in the ...
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AABB Collision Detection Confusion

I am trying to understand and implement AABB collision to learn simple 2D game physics. I'm following a tutorial and its method is a bit different to other websites. It uses the center of the object ...
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Making a wrapping wire (like the Worms Ninja Rope) work correctly with moving geometry

I have implemented a 2D wire like the one described in this question which is made up of straight line segments between wrapping points. However, while the algorithms described in this answer work ...
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Pygame Mask Doesen't Detect Collisions

I'm trying to make my game's collisions with masks. I have 6 masks but only 2 works. My code is: ...
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OnTriggerEnter With First Person Controller

I'm working on an FPS for my first time. I'm creating a simple terrain and instatiating 15 cubes on my terrain. (This works fine). Each cube is named "cube" and has a static trigger collider. Here's ...

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