Custom Poly Defining

#1 Until the editor you can do this.

1) open up an image
2) make note of all the coords you will need to create a convex shape for collision (right down each points X/Y pair)
3) use my Javascript converter to generate those points in a -1 to 1 range

#2 Anthony: I'll take a look at your code and see what's going on... hmm maybe I'll go make a quick little visual editor.

#3 Cool, I can't wait till some more milestones are complete.

#4 Yeah, defining custom polygons is quite brutal at the moment but with editor support, it'll be dead simple.

Just to explain a little though; the -1 to +1 range is a local-space or normalised range. (-1,-1) equates to the top/left and (+1,+1) equates to the bottom/right. Why this system? Well, the reason is that it's independant of size. If you scale your objects, the positions are still valid. This coordinate system is used for both the collision-polygon and the mount/link points. The difference with the mount/link-points is that you can exceed -1 or +1 so that you can mount outside the bounding-box (size) of the object, exactly as the "helpers" in the shooter demo.

- Melv.

#5 So you guys know, this'll be the next editor we do. And Anthony's tool is a pretty nice stop-gap in the mean time. :)