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Hey

So I recently tried getting back into a bit of coding, thought I'd try making a small platformer game and I'm having a bit of trouble with the collisions system. So I had a function to detect whether two objects are intersecting but this doesn't help me when I'm trying to make platforms at different heights to stand on. I have since deleted the collision function to try to come up with something new but have lost inspiration.

I've got a table called collideList which will hopefully hold all the platforms, they should be drawn in red (for testing). So all the images are drawn at a scale called worldScale based off the window size which should be around 5 for 1080p.

Thanks for any help in advance!

You attempt to move the player to the desired position, check whether the position collides with anything, and adjust the position accordingly if a collision occurs (e.g. if player is falling downwards onto a platform, tweak the players position so they're standing on the platform). I wrote a more detailed response previously: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=85437&p=221891#p221891

There is a basic collision detection function in the Wiki, I presume you already have something similar: https://love2d.org/wiki/BoundingBox.lua

I don't know whether you're writing your own collision detection as a learning exercise, or simply trying to make a game. If the latter, I advise using an existing library for collision detection/response, such as https://github.com/kikito/bump.lua or the Physics module built into Love (which is more complex than bump).