Pixel perfect collision of a sprite with a mouse

[MagNet]

Simply, do I have to make a "dummy" sprite that will move with the mouse or is there some way without using it?

[kornalius]

Yes you can use the Collide() function. It will check to see if there is a collision at certain pixel on the screen. You can get the mouse location at check. The return value is the sprite's handle.

[MagNet]

I tried this before making this thread actually:
if (Collide(col$, wParam$, lParam$, cx$, cy$) <> NULL)
ShowMessage("lol");
end;

Didn't work, what's wrong there?
It's being called in the WM_LBUTTONDOWN event and it always returns a null value.

The sprite has a pixelcheck option of course.

[kornalius]

Sorry try SpriteAt(wParam$, lParam$, True), this should work. I don't remember by heart if it does pixel-perfect checking though. Let me know.

[MagNet]

Oh, cool.
It actually does pixel-perfect collision.

Thanks.

Oh and you could add the G_ShowMessage fucntion to the manual.

[MagNet]

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[kornalius]

HEHE! Very funny looking game. Cool. :))

[PointOfLight]

Oh and you could add the G_ShowMessage fucntion to the manual.


The reason G_SHOWMESSAGE is not currently in the help file is because it is not a native PPL function. Rather, it is a wrapper for a set of PPL functions useful for displaying a messagebox when the GameAPI is running. However, I have added it to the manual.