Re: FLASH: Colission detection

[Colin Moock]

flasherchinwag [dot] com

,Internet writes:

>Non-active colision detection relies on the x and y coordinates and

>would need a mathematical representation of the target area circles and

>squares are fairly easy, but complex shapes like planes would be much

>more difficult.


usually collision detection for non geometric shapes is done by masking a

geometric shape on top of your object and detecting based on that. make a

hidden movie clip in your object mc that you'll use for the actual detection.

a circle is a decent way to approximate many shapes. for long shapes, use a

rectangle.


colin


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