2D Melee

#1 There's a function called pickRect() where you can test a rectangle (given 4 coordinates) and it returns a list of objects found. You can pickRect() by a mask type (player, monster, whatever you want) to just see if your "attack" hits a monster in font of you.

Other than that, just search the forum. This has probably been covered a lot of times.

#2 Depends on what kind of melee fighting your doing. My game has supersmash bros/streetfighter style fighting.

I create "Hitbox" objects for all the players and enemies that are attached to them.

I then scale these hitboxes based on the animation so they always make sense.

Then when you attack I create attack boxes. The attack boxes collide with the hit boxes and generate a hit fx based on the location of the hit box and the enemy player ect...

Here is a video on Fighting game strategy that illustrates much of what I am talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFTvXXoDNRA

My system is very similar to the one illustrated in the video.

#3 I did a technique where I "fired" a projectile with a world limit set at my reach. The projectile is tiny and nearly invisible, set to a lower layer, you never see it. When hero swings his sword a projectile is fired in the facing direction. then its just like any shooter. Kind of the poor mans casting a ray. If the enemy is outside of the range or more importantly behind you it will not be hit.

#4 ^---lol that sounds funny....but its very clever. the method i'm using is similar to matthew's but incomplete and totally noobish. thanks for the video that helps alot too i always played fighting games but never thought about using the concepts towards actual code.

#5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uAYQGVrz3U
this video will probably help all of us i wonder if that program is torqueable? but then again it was made just to pick apart character frames and hit boxes for the MeltyBlood game (a fav of mines)

#6 For my 2.5D brawler, I created a scene object and gave it a collision boundary, then set it to collide with enemies and turned off collision handling. I then mounted it to my player under an "attack" linkpoint. Whenever the player attacks, I do a manual collision check, which returns a list of all objects it collided against.

I also give my attacks names, so the code will first check if a linkpoint exists with that name before defaulting to the standard attack linkpoint. That way I can have a jump attack that hits enemies underneath the player.

#7 Wow got a lot of great ideas from your posts. Im getting some good ideas from all this. I will try and put something together and let you all know how it turned out. I especially liked the ideas about using invisible projectiles, sounds like I might be able to get some creative melee stuff done with that.