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AppGameKit Classic Chat / physics problem

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pjsmith67
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Posted: 5th Feb 2018 05:01
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Ok, I am messing around with physics this weekend, having never really used it before.... I try to put a sprite on the screen and apply gravity to it so it drops. That works but it doesn't fall all the way to the bottom. I turned on physics debugging and was surprised that the collision area was much larger than the sprite itself. I tried setting the sprite shape to polygon and then turning on physics but the collision shape was still way too large. I verified as the sprite was loaded that it was the correct size.

This is happening with every single sprite I try to put on the screen.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks,

Phil
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Mobiius
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Posted: 5th Feb 2018 09:02
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Any example code? Your media?
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pjsmith67
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Posted: 6th Feb 2018 02:56
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Well, I started a new project with the same media files and now it works.

The sprite was animated in the first project, but not in the new one. That's the only difference.

I'll keep playing with it.
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TrezSoft
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Posted: 6th Feb 2018 10:06
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Normally its down to a change in the physics scale, so the scale of the physics system does not match the scale of the sprites displayed.

https://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/Reference/2DPhysics/SetPhysicsScale.htm

The above link explains it in more detail.
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CJB
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I find SetSpriteShape( spriteid, 3 ) usually does the job, but you MUST do this after you have created and positioned / scaled your sprite. If you move or resize your sprite AFTER creating the physics shape, then the sprite image and the physics system will be out of sync with each other. Use SetPhysicsDebugOn() to check if your physics shapes match up with your sprites.
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Posted: 6th Feb 2018 12:46
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It could be because you were using an animated sprite.
SetSpriteShape() does not create a unique shape for each frame. If you want that then it will need to be called every frame to readjust for the different sized sprite.
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Posted: 6th Feb 2018 16:05
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Thanks for the all the suggestions! I will take a look at it today when I get some time.

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Quote: "It could be because you were using an animated sprite.
SetSpriteShape() does not create a unique shape for each frame."


True, however when you use the correct order of the commands, you can definitely set a correct polygon shape to a sprite with an alpha channel transparency. Animated sprites rarely really change their actual size anyway. You'd need to set up the animation stuff before setting the shape. Position doesn't matter, nor does scale from what I've found, although it is probably good practice to set up sprite to the correct size before either way.

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I have found with animating sprites when you want to make a big animation change to an animating character calling SetSpriteShape(yourSpr,3 ) after the set sprite animation commands helps
This might help when for example you change from a moving animation to a jumping dieing one etc
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