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I’ve been working on writing a collision detection class, and it’s not as easy as you might think. It’s simple enough to boundary test (i.e. bounding-box overlap test), but to do per-pixel collisions you have to dump your symbol data into a BitmapData object, and you HAVE to use the top-left as the registration point for all your colliding symbol instances, which means you end up doing a lot of offsets & shiz… Ho hum.

Anyways, I knocked this Peggle / Pachinko thing together over the course of yesterday and today. You can place as many “pegs” as you want, wherever you want ‘em, same with the “balls”, and in theory, I should be able to scale both pegs and balls to any size while still keeping the collisions accurate, but I’ve not tested that yet because after debugging this for a while I need a break.

But hey, look at the purty colours

No source-code for this one just yet as it’s not in a fit state (it has waaaay too much debug output per collision that I don’t want to strip out just yet, and enough swearing to make a salty sea-dog blush ). When I’ve knocked it into shape some more I’ll chuck the Peg, Ball and Collision classes here in an update.

Update: Source code and flash files now available after the jump. Some of the code is a bit yucky, so apologies in advance for my bodge-hackery =P

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