Better understanding of Collisions w/Construct.

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  • After spending some time playing around with Construct over the past few weeks I am trying to get a better understanding of how to correctly work with Collision Detection when using the various behaviors. One thing I noticed right away is , for example, if you applied car movement to a sprite and set various other sprites throughout the layout that where checked "solid" the car movement behavior handles the collision detection. This is also true for other behaviors that I had the time to play with.

    The custom movement behavior however does not handle collision detection, as I would imagine it wouldn't, but I am confused on how to "correctly" work with collision detection when using the custom movement behavior. I have done a few tests with "On collision with another object", I have set various collision modes with the "On start of layer" event and ran a few other tests but I am still getting faulty collision detection. What I mean by "faulty" is I, for example, I created one square sprite in the middle of the layout along with another sprite that I created a car movement system for with the custom movement behavior. I then used the "On collision with another object" event followed with the "Bounce" action. I noticed that half the time when coming in contact with the square obstacle I would bounce off and the other half I would drive right through with a quick speed decrease as if the collision detection caught and then failed.

    What I would really like to know is how to "correctly" work with collision detection when using the custom movement behavior. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

  • "On collision", and "is overlapping" need to be continuous just like always.

    In other words that condition needs to be checked every tick, start of layout just wont do.

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  • "On collision", and "is overlapping" need to be continuous just like always.

    In other words that condition needs to be checked every tick, start of layout just wont do.

    Thanks newt! I thought this might be the case but I kept thinking there must be a better way than to add all those collision checks to an every tick event. Much appreciated.

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