[SOLVED] LÖVE 0.8.0 Contact:getSeparation() ?

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[SOLVED] LÖVE 0.8.0 Contact:getSeparation() ?

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Has Contact:getSeparation() been removed from LÖVE 0.8.0?

It's still in the documentation at https://www.love2d.org/wiki/Contact:getSeparation, but whenever I call it on a Contact returned inside the love.physics callbacks I get the error "attempt to call method 'getSeparation' (a nil value)". Contact:getFriction() works fine and can be found in the LÖVE src. References to Contact:getSeparation was not found in the LÖVE src.

If this was pulled from LÖVE 0.8.0, what's the recommended approach to getting distance between colliders now? love.physics.getDistance(...)?

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Re: LÖVE 0.8.0 Contact:getSeparation() ?

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Um, how about plain-old pythagorean theorem? dist = sqrt(distX^2 + distY^2)?
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Re: LÖVE 0.8.0 Contact:getSeparation() ?

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Maybe use Contact:getPositions and then do what substitute541 said, where distX = x1 - x2, distY = y1 - y2.
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Re: LÖVE 0.8.0 Contact:getSeparation() ?

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Ok, that's fine, I can do that. Was just going to offer to update the wiki, but someone beat me to it! Thanks!
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