[SFML] Gettting the position of a collision

Simboblian

Hi guys. Just wondering if I can get the position that a collision takes place. Through my searches I've been unable to find if anyone can get it.

Just looking for something along the lines of this:

sf::vector2f GetCollisionPosition(BoundingBox box1, BoundingBox box2);

This would be useful for putting an animation at the point of contact. I'd also then be able to tell which boxes are hitting each other (unless I can already do this and am missing something).

I'm already able to detect if 2 skeletons intersect, but is there a way to pull out the position of that collision?

Thanks in advance. :yes:

EDIT: If you have an example for any runtime that would be helpful.

Nate

SkeletonBounds has some convenience methods for collecting the bounding box attachments and doing hit detection with a point or line segment against the bounding box polygons. It doesn't have methods for the point of intersection or for checking polygons against polygons. You can use SkeletonBounds to get the polygons, then implement your own checking. Google should turn up lots of ways to do the checking. You can look at Intersector for an overlapConvexPolygons implementation, just make sure to define all your bounding boxes as convex.

Simboblian

Cheers for pointing me in the right direction Nate!

That "Intersector" resource is super handy. All sorted now. 😉