Destructible Terrain

Hi this is my first post and i am new to Construct 2.

Is it possible to create a terrain or object and destroy it by pixels rather than sprites. What i mean is to have something which you could break down with anything ranging from 1 pixel to 100 * 100 pixel. So i could create a game with tunnels created by the player.

Thanks

ps I have bought the program so am not limited by restrictions placed on the free version.

Visually, it is possible. However you won't be having a fun time with collision.

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based on what your looking for here are some thoughts. I'm not an expert I'm still pretty new here myself.

1. each pixel is a sprite or at least 2x2 or 4x4 sprite.

I'm hesitent to this approach as this is a sprite draw for each object on screen.

2. Use the canvas plugin. This allows you to directly manipulate the pixels. however I think it requires a lower level coding rather than C2 Higher events programming less system.

3. Program your game in a language.

Your best bet is to work with the canvas plugin and use somekind of canvas sprite.... honestly I'm not familiar with the canvas plugin. But I think it's your best direction.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure that the canvas function supports collision. I'm afraid this is one of the few things that C2 just isn't made for.

I've seen some pretty good examples with the canvas plugin, however, as sqiddster mentioned: The canvas plugin doesn't handle collision, so it's visuals only. I agree that this is something not very well suited for C2.

Check the thread for the plug, Pode did a subversion that added collision detection for the object. Its not per pixel, and only covers the bounding box, so it's not terribly helpfull.

Also keep in mind the Canvas object doesn't play well with webgl.

Relevant examples:

http://www.scirra.com/forum/destruction-of-ground_topic55414_post345920.html?KW=worms#345920

http://www.scirra.com/forum/how-do-i-simple-worms-game_topic47872_post300449.html#300449

The per pixel collision detection is what takes most of the events in the examples, but it's pretty simple. The canvas object is used to get the opacity of pixels and for drawing a visualization of the terrain.