Coordinates within Defold

Questions
#1

I create a game object with a factory and plan to map it to HardonCollider, an external collision library with a very bad name.

The reason I can’t use Box2D is the way it behaves in HTML5 when on an external monitor (70fps) or iOS low power mode (30fps). Vsync off and frame cap 0 is very stuttery.

Now, the dilemma I have is how to map the polygon coordinates to the sprite. Game objects manually distributed along the edges of the shape would work, but I can’t use game objects in a game object file (loaded by a factory). Sprites could work, but there is no way to get their position.

I would prefer to define the collision polygon coordinates within Defold, to avoid the external software dance. Any ideas how to tackle this?

#2

I use Sketch App for the art. Maybe loading .svg files could work? If so, is there an XML parser in Defold?

#3

No, the files are human readable protobuf. If you create a collision object with a few shapes you can open it in a text editor and see how it is constructed.

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#4

That’s cool! I don’t think it helps me in this case, though, because the shape I’m making for HC is a convex polygon.

#5

Aha. Check out this thread: Defold Polygon Editor

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