STI and collision

[ZephB]

Hi,
I have really searched around the Internet to know how to have simple collisions working with my little game. I want to use STI because it's so simple to implement, but how to make simple collisions without using box2d? If this subject is already well responded can you guys refer me to the topic, because right now I'm a little bit strugling. I'm coming form pico-8 so all of this is new to me

[JuanjoSalvador]

It's funny, I switched from Love2D to PICO-8 few years ago, and then back to Love2D again.

I think I already answered this on Reddit too, but in a nutshell, using Box2D plugin is your best choice, imho. If you don't need gravity, you can set gravity to 0 when creating the World object.

[ZephB]

Honestly that's funny because 2 years ago I tried love2d found it too complicated and then switched to pico-8 ha ha ha. Should I draw the tilemap myself, would it be easier for me to test collisions?

[pgimeno]

For axis-aligned rectangles (AABBs), I recommend the Bump library, https://github.com/kikito/bump.lua

STI contains a plugin for bump, no idea how they're used together though. I haven't used STI myself.

[JuanjoSalvador]

Should I draw the tilemap myself, would it be easier for me to test collisions?

Depending of the complexity of your tileset, but I would say no. Can you provide a .love file or something we can see?

[ZephB]

Should I draw the tilemap myself, would it be easier for me to test collisions?

Depending of the complexity of your tileset, but I would say no. Can you provide a .love file or something we can see?

Actually I have found the perfect solution. The cartographer library! It is capable of doing the same thing as what pico-8 is capable, it's really great. I've had somme issues so I created my own function in cartographer that allow me to quickly put a map, a tile_number and a property and that returns true or false, exactly like fget in pico-8. I'm really happy with it. This is what I added :

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function pget(map,gid,propertyName)
    local prespect
	if gid == false or gid == nil then
		prespect = false
		return false
	else
		prespect = map:getTileProperty(gid,propertyName)
		if prespect then
			return true
		else
			return false
		end
	end
end

[JuanjoSalvador]

Perfect

[cristoferfb]

Love2D documentation have a nice list of tutorials:

https://love2d.org/wiki/Category:Tutorials

The first in the list have a very nice explication about 2D collisions:

https://sheepolution.com/learn/book/13

It have too a very compressive introduction to tiles and collisions:

https://sheepolution.com/learn/book/18

U can learn it and then implement a solution for ur problem, love requiere a little more work than PICO but the flexibility is certainly bigger. The documentation is your best friend in any code adventure.

[kuzika]

Wow this really helped me a lot. Thanks

[MadMonkeyGames]

Should I draw the tilemap myself, would it be easier for me to test collisions?

Depending of the complexity of your tileset, but I would say no. Can you provide a .love file or something we can see?

Actually I have found the perfect solution. The cartographer library! It is capable of doing the same thing as what pico-8 is capable, it's really great. I've had somme issues so I created my own function in cartographer that allow me to quickly put a map, a tile_number and a property and that returns true or false, exactly like fget in pico-8. I'm really happy with it. This is what I added :

Code: Select all

function pget(map,gid,propertyName)
    local prespect
	if gid == false or gid == nil then
		prespect = false
		return false
	else
		prespect = map:getTileProperty(gid,propertyName)
		if prespect then
			return true
		else
			return false
		end
	end
end

Could you please give an example of how to use this?