Sliding Pixel Collision?

[kicknbritt]

Hey guys. I am putting the finishing touches on my games terrain collision system and I need some help.
Here is the situation:
Imagine a bunch of players with an x, y and direction running around a map.
The map consists of a texture holding terrain pixels.

For collision detection, I am using the players x and y to check if a specific position contains terrain.
Players can move around and collide with terrain but upon hitting a wall they just sort of freeze (they get stuck on pixels).

I need a way to make player-wall collision cause them to slide along terrain.
Does anyone know of any way to do this?

[darkfrei]

Not exactly what you want, but must be pretty close example:

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if angled_floor () then -- the floor is a ramp 45 or -45 degrees
	local sign = vx < 0 and -1 or 1 -- right moving gives positive value, left moving gives negative
	local t = tangent_of_ramp () -- gives 1 for 45 degrees and -1 for -45 degrees
	-- note that dy is inverted
	vy = sign*(-t)*vx -- vertical speed is the same as horizontal speed, but negative when the ramp has bottomleft-topright inclination.
end

Left tiles are "walkable", right tiles are "not walkable", but you can go through the bevels.

[kicknbritt]

Sorry, maybe I should have specified the perspective is top-down.

I have tried to think of something but I can't find any way this would map directly to a top-down map but I could easily be wrong.

[ReFreezed]

Before the game begins, calculate which corners should have slopes over them and put a "wedge" object or something there, and when players intersect with a wedge just handle the collision the same way as for axis-aligned walls, just at an angle.

[kicknbritt]

Actually I was just thinking that. Trying to work something out right now

[kicknbritt]

I don't think that approach will work either because I need the player to slide on terrain in the direction they are moving.
Also I would rather find a way without precomputing everything if possible.

I guess what I really need, is some kind of math that determines a movement direction upon collision.
Or maybe I can just cast rays upon collision and sort of octopus players around terrain. This might be expensive though...

[ReFreezed]

Is this the functionality you want?

SmoothCornerCollisionsInTiledTopDownGame.love

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[kicknbritt]

Actually this might work. I think I misunderstood what you meant. Let me try to work in some sort of angular movement into the example.

[darkfrei]

Youtube has very nice suggestions!
https://youtu.be/Isvs9OzX6Lk



solved vertical collision:

sloping-tiles-01.love

solved vertical collision

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[kicknbritt]

Sorry guys I have been insanely, insanely busy. I will try to get this worked on in a day or two.