[behavior] rex_light

UberLou

You might try "Action:Point to object", and disable collision of instances which you want to ignore.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that action but I don't think it's what I'm looking for. Point to object seems to adjust the width until it hits one object. I would like to add multiple objects and also only scale the width to maximum 700 pixels.

Here is a capx to demonstrate what I mean. Is there a way to have the laser sprite hit the Enemy sprites too without making them solid?

UberLou

I could not get your point clearly.

You might set "Obstacles" to "Custom" in properties table if you want to assign a custom obstacles in event sheet.

That worked. I didn't notice there was a "Custom" setting. Thanks!

Hi again Rex! I have another question about this plugin. I need to destroy an object that has the Light behavior if the object doesn't hit any obstacle. Whats strange is that destroying the object when the object.width=light.maxWidth actually returns max width when there is an object it should hit. I've put together a capx to show what I mean. In the capx, if you shoot (click the mouse) when youre just to the right of the thin line, the max width is around 287. However if you shoot a little to the left of the line, max width jumps to 500. 290-499 are never returned. Is this a bug or am I going about this the wrong way?

Example: http://www.louisferina.com/games/Light.capx

Thanks!

Update

Fix bug of calculating width in hit testing.

UberLou

Thanks to point out this bug. Please updating this behavior again.

Just tested it out and looks like it works great. Thanks for fixing it!

Johncw87 's trace (raycast) plugin is better then this behavior. So I will recommend user try that plugin first.