2D Side scroller collision detection
- by Shanon Simmonds
I am trying to do some collision detection between objects and tiles, but the tiles do not have there own x and y position, they are just rendered to the x and y position given, there is an array of integers which has the ids of the tiles to use(which are given from an image and all the different colors are assigned different tiles)
int x0 = camera.x / 16;
int y0 = camera.y / 16;
int x1 = (camera.x + screen.width) / 16;
int y1 = (camera.y + screen.height) / 16;
for(int y = y0; y < y1; y++) {
if(y < 0 || y >= height) continue; // height is the height of the level
for(int x = x0; x < x1; x++) {
if(x < 0 || x >= width) continue; // width is the width of the level
getTile(x, y).render(screen, x * 16, y * 16);
}
}
I tried using the levels getTile method to see if the tile that the object was going to advance to, to see if it was a certain tile, but, it seems to only work in some directions. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong and fixes would be greatly appreciated.
What's wrong is that it doesn't collide properly in every direction and also this is how I tested for a collision in the objects class
if(!level.getTile((x + xa) / 16, (y + ya) / 16).isSolid()) {
x += xa;
y += ya;
}
EDIT: xa and ya represent the direction as well as the movement, if xa is negative it means the object is moving left, if its positive it is moving right, and same with ya except negative for up, positive for down.
