Questions tagged [collision]
In collision detection problems, the challenge is to determine when shapes intersect each other.
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Creating a maze game where the game resets if you hit traps/walls and finishes when you hit a different color
Here’s my code, the traps are the slightly visible squares. The user controls a red square (with arrow keys) and cannot touch the walls or traps or else the game resets. Additionally, if the user ...
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Making a grid for collision detection in a game that wraps
I'm making a 2D game which wraps (when you move off the right edge, you appear on the left, etc). The game area is square, all objects are circles (with AABB smaller than the game area, and in most ...
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Bounding volume hierarchy C++
Here is a C++ implementation of a bounding volume hierarchy, aimed for fast collision detection (view frustum, rays, other bounding volumes). It is based on the ideas from the book "Real-Time ...
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Simplify JavaScript collision detection with offset [closed]
I am working on a background project that is a little interactive. Now I am using some collision detection to draw some lines and stuff.
The code I have works great but it is very bulky and hard to ...
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Self Updtating QuadTree
I'm making a simple 2D game engine, and to make collision detection more effective I tried making a QuadTree class. I don't know if this will work, but that's not that important. You don't have to ...
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C++ Breakout game using SDL
I did a big mistake to create procedural C++ breakout game on start and now im having trouble converting it into OOP.
As far as I can see I need classes: Loptica (eng. Ball), Splav (eng. Paddle), ...
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Flood Fill using unordered_map which has user-defined type as key
I have an implementation of the flood fill algorithm. Assume that an image is provided as a vector of ...
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Python Turtle based Pong game
I'm new to Python but I've coded in other languages mainly for hardware. I made Pong in Python using turtle but it's a little glitchy. I was wondering if any of you guys could check it out and give ...
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Collision detection for moving 2D objects
After implementing SAT (separating axis theorem) and not being happy with it only working on stationary shapes, this in theory allowing for fast objects to glitch through others, I came up with this ...
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Platformer Game: Arrow Key Player Movement and Collision Detection
I am in the middle of working on this game and I still need to add some things (e.g. score, coin counters, etc.) but I really feel like there is way too much unneeded code. Could you help me simplify ...
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Line and bitmap collision detection
I am trying to implement an efficient collision detection between a line joining two points and a bitmap mask.
Example:
Currently I am using Bresenham's line drawing algorithm to draw each pixel of ...
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Collision Detection in a 2D shooter game
I have the following code that works just fine for collision detection. The only problem is its size and its performance. I'm trying to do it and many other things 60 times per second, which doesn't ...
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Mutable 2d Rect class
So I wrote a 2d rectangle class for use in a 2d pygame based game engine. It uses the vector class from this question, so if you want to test, you need that code too. I want to ask: Does this ...
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Calculate next position and velocity after “bounce”
Intro and code
I have the following function that calculates an object's "next" position and velocity (in 1 dimension) given a boundary [0, max].
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OBBs intersection improvement for AABBs-OBBs
I'm trying to code some intersection codes for Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBBs) and axis-aligned bounding boxes (AABBs). I have the OBB-OBB intersection using the Separating Axis Theorem (SAT) and I'm ...
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Circle - Line segment collision
I wrote an implementation of circle - line segment collision detection algorithm. Here is quick demonstration how it works:
And here is my implementation in Javascript using HTML canvas:
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Simple class game hierarchy with collision detection
I'm trying to make the transition from the 'understand how standalone features work' phase to writing.. more 'complex' code that could actually see use in real life, so I've been trying find some neat,...
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Find the intersect area of two overlapping rectangles
This is my solution to find the coordinates of 2 overlapped rectangles implemented in JavaScript. Each rectangle is represented by 2 points, each with 2 (x,y) coordinates.
Can this code be improved?...
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Octree Implementation
The fn_AABB struct represents an axis aligned bounding box, by a center(position) and half lengths(hwidth). They also contain a set of planes for use in collision but that is not important to the ...
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Handling collision on a turn-based 2D game
I have implemented a collision check algorithm that I have created for my game, and the algorithm uses recursion.
Now it all works fine, and I thought to myself, what if there was a way to solve this ...
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Collision manager
I have a chunk of code that's working properly but it's way too complicated to read:
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Collision detection method
I think everyone has some code they are embarrassed and not proud of and today I have decided to show mine. I'm not sure how to go about making this more efficient. At the time I was just happy it did ...
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C++ Erasing an object from vector of pointers
I am making this simple game in SFML and I have this vector of pointers std::vector<Brick*> bricks; which stores objects of class ...
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Maximize the number of PyGame sprites, with collision detection
I was trying to see what is the highest number of moving and colliding boxes (sprites) I could get in pygame? So that I could start working on game I want, I searched google and I found different ...
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Checking whether a bullet has hit a Space Invader
I just (almost) finished a Space-Invaders game in Javascript.
I have a few bugs to clear out of the way but meanwhile I wanted to ask how I can improve the method I use to test if one of my 'Bullets' ...
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Javascript collision check
I have code to find images in my selections. But when nothing in selection (loop FOR) and selection is kinda big, it's kinda laggy. How can I improve my code?
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2D Game - Ray-cast collision handling
This code is an excerpt from an infinite platformer I'm working on for fun.
It belongs to the class GameObject from which every object i.e platforms, player, ...
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2D Collision Detection
I wrote this a while ago but wanted to see if I went about it the right way and if my brain is working correctly. I was thinking about these two projects the other day and I recently released the ...
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High performance, branchless Intersection testing: sphere-aabb & aabb-aabb
From my tests:
AABB-Sphere: 2954.8 tests per ms.
AABB-AABB: 1087.0 tests per ms.
The sphere test is almost 3 times faster, but the two intersection tests seem to perform about the same number ...
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More JS AI causes slower AI movement in HTML Canvas
I have a simple little game with one character as the player and four enemy characters. I created a very basic AI, that moves towards the player when the player is nearby. That all worked fine, but ...
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Simple geometry problems involving rectangles and circles in Python 3
I'm working with some simple geometry problems featuring rectangles and circles. My code is as follows:
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Kattis “Hitting the Targets” utilizing a polymorphic relashionship
In order to learn C++ I have written a solution to this Kattis "Hitting the Targets" problem
Basically the program is to accept some shapes (circles and rectangles) on std in and a set of points and ...
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Log collisions in generating unique random strings
I've created a small class to generate unique random strings. It works fine. I also want to log the collisions of the generated strings. I check if the generated string is in the array for uniquness:
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Computing intersections of a Polyline and a line
I wrote a script to compute / interpolate the nodes of a Polyline at a given latitude, input_lat. It works for my purpose but I am wondering if there is a better, ...
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Rectangle-segment collision detection
I am working with C++ and SDL, hoping to create a game later. I am implementing the collision detection between rectangles and segments.
I found this (NateS user's solution) about line-rectangle ...
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2D colliding disks in JavaScript (ideal billiard balls)
I am implementing a simulation of colliding disks (ideal 2D billiard balls) in JavaScript.
I follow an event-driven algorithm that avoids discretizing time; the algorithm goes as follows at each step:...
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Find cells crossed by a line
This method find cells that are crossed by line A-B and adds them to one vector.
I have got some duplicates here and some lines of code are very similiar but they differ in one variable. Should this ...
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Setting the scene for a role-playing game
I made some games in Pygame, but I am still new to making games.
I made this RPG game, and this code is just a part of the game. The game executes different Pygame files for different levels of the ...
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Hash Based Data Structure in Java for Collision Calculation
I have started a project on my free time were I'm writing a 2D game engine in Java. One of the more challenging and interesting aspects of such a project is collision detection between sprites on the ...
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Basketball Collisions with Box2d
I'm working on a new prototype that is a simple drag and shoot arcade basketball game. For this project I am working with LibGDX and the Box2d physics library.
You can play the game here: Play ...
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Clone of “Pop the Lock” iPhone Game
As an exercise, I decided to program my own version of the game Pop the Lock for the iPhone. The look and functionality are essentially the same, though the controls are modified for playing on a ...
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Checking a circle against some bounds in a collision detector
First, some code. I have a class, Circle:
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Collision detection algorithm
This is my second algorithm and I will try to make it as simple for you to understand how it works. It is pretty expensive and I'd like to make it more efficient.
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It works by splitting a square ...
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QuadTree for collision detection
I was recently working on a game using the SFML library, Later on, I experienced performance issues due to collision detection. I have been told to use a QuadTree ...
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Bounding volume hierarchy
I'm building a bounding volume hierarchy in Golang. I can tell my code works because I did some test on it and it gives the same results as the brute force implementation (brute force is to test all ...
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Obstacle-avoiding AI
I have made a game in Java that involves two players to fight each other with spaceships. For one player mode, I have programmed a simple AI to avoid allies and asteroids and go straight towards the ...
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Conditionally eliminating one of two colliding bodies
I like to explicit return function even for void functions to reduce the use of if-elses, like this code snippet:
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Recreating pong
Github is a link to all my code and the working JAR file.
I have been learning LibGDX and attempted to make a working Pong game, I am new to this and would like some pointers on where I could improve ...
