Tile Map Collisions
by David Taylor · in Torque Game Builder · 07/20/2006 (7:31 am) · 8 replies
Hi there. I've set up a tile map in the tile map editor. It's very simple, and consists of two types of tiles - a path tile and an obstacle tile. I used the tutorial, and have set up every single obstacle tile with the collision brush, (so there is a green square around each one of these tiles), but when I run the game, there are no collisions. I have a player sprite that moves over these obstacles with disconcertingly wild abandon!
I have put an onCollision call into this sprite's class with an echo command, but nothing is being echoed. I have also set all of the player sprite's collision options to active, (send/receive, etc, as well as callback).
Can anyone suggest what I am to do to get the player sprite colliding with the obstacle tiles?
I have put an onCollision call into this sprite's class with an echo command, but nothing is being echoed. I have also set all of the player sprite's collision options to active, (send/receive, etc, as well as callback).
Can anyone suggest what I am to do to get the player sprite colliding with the obstacle tiles?
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#2
07/25/2006 (7:23 pm)
And just like that, it works. Thanks, Kevin! :D 
#3
07/26/2006 (7:10 pm)
No problem at all, Dave. ^_^
#4
08/01/2006 (3:10 pm)
I'm not sure about this, but I remember hearing that tile layers can only receive collisions (i.e. can't send).
#5
08/01/2006 (3:36 pm)
Thomas is right. Your tile layer won't send collision. You can show this by setting it's status to "$map.setCollisionActive(true, true)". In the console you'll see an error message saying that "Send collision is not allowed for this object" (or something along those lines).
#6
08/01/2006 (6:23 pm)
Funny though that layers can receive physics.
#7
08/01/2006 (9:03 pm)
I'm pretty sure that's by design, Kevin. 
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