[Solved] Combining Collision Tiles In tile-based Game?

[I~=Spam]

Hello!

I'm looking for a way to combining collision tiles together to optimize my game and make collision detection a bit easier if I decided on using Hadron Collider (read about some weird problems when I looked through the forums).

here's a pic ( sorry if it is a bit sloppy )

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I didn't find anything when I searched the forums and I found this when I searched the wiki.
Although it didn't work! Instead it gave weird locations for tiles that didn't make sense.

I uploaded the .love file. ( I used Kikto's inspect.lua to display the tables )
Any help is appreciated.

[MarekkPie]

There's a couple of things you can do before what you are suggesting using HardonCollider, because that is a bit of a harder problem that it might seem.

• Make sure all of your tiles are set to passive, so they only respond to collision detection, and not actively search of it;
• Make sure all of your tiles are in the same group, so they don't collide with each other.

Now, to the tile merging. If you are using something like Tiled, the easiest way is to make a separate object layer and make those objects act as what you collide with, rather than the tiles itself. Then, you can just drag out the regions you want to group.

I'd try all of those before you look into programmatically merging tiles.

[markgo]

I would not recommend using HardonCollider for tile collision. There are plenty of examples in the forum that demonstrates how to handle tile collision. With that said, if you are willing to use HC for tile collision, you can do what MarekkPie suggested with the object layer in tiled.

[MarekkPie]

I would not recommend using HardonCollider for tile collision. There are plenty of examples in the forum that demonstrates how to handle tile collision. With that said, if you are willing to use HC for tile collision, you can do what MarekkPie suggested with the object layer in tiled.

I didn't even think about that. If your movements as restricted to within the tile grid, then as markgo said, there are much better ways to handle tile-based collisions. However, if you are making some game that uses a tileset to design a level (but needs more robust collision detection), then follow my advice.

[Robin]

This is something I made (for Simon, actually, if anyone remembers that) that solves this problem. (I use HC as well.)

Warning: this algorithm can get pretty slow for large levels with lots of tiles. It might make sense to pre-generate the large tiles instead of generating them every time you start the game.

[I~=Spam]

THANKS! I'll try it out. Sorry for the late response... I've had other important things for a while

EDIT: Finished testing and it works great! Thanks again!