Is it possible to detect a collision based on image point?

Hey Construct Community,

I'm trying to create a sword fighting system. Is there a way to detect when an enemy collides with the sword of the player sprite (Image Point 1) and not the whole player sprite?

You can adjust the collision mesh of the image by clicking the button below the image point button.

It's called "Set collision polygon".

That doesn't work though because then the player's collision is tied to the sword (i.e he gets hit from behind but nothing happens because the collision is on the sword).

I´m trying to do the the same thing in my project, and right now I´m using three different collision boxes.

Box one is the one I pin (using PIN-behavior) the character sprite to. This box handles the player movement.

Box two, somewhat smaller than box one, is pinned (using PIN-behavior) to box one. I use this box to check if the player gets hit. (I made it a little smaller so the player doesn´t feel he gets hit unfairly)

Box three is a rectangular box that I put on an image point I have on the sword´s edge. I don´t use PIN-behavior here (since you can´t PIN things to specific image points), but rather use: Every tick->set position to another object.

I use box three to check if the sword hits the enemies.

So far it seems to work ok, but I´ve just recently started this project, so we´ll see.

I´m sure there are a lot of (probably better) ways to do this though.

You can do this using just using imagepoints. Here is an example.

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Enemies will only be destroyed if the overlap the imagepoint "swordpoint".

Minor

Thanks for the example, it works perfectly!

This forum really saved me thanks alot.

Thanks , this post and Capx is very helpful, it saved me too .

Minor, awmace5 : Thank you!