Hardon Collider Collision detection for LÖVE

Initializes the library. Call this in love.load(). All the parameters can be omitted.

function love.load()
    hardoncollider.init(150)
end

Sets the different callbacks. The second calling style let's you specify the callbacks by name, see the example.

If nil is passed as any callback, the callback will not be changed.

Each callback has the following prototype:

function callback(dt, shape_one, shape_two, mtv_x, mtv_y)

function start(dt, shape_one, shape_two, mtv_x, mtv_y)
    print('started colliding:', shape_one, shape_two)
	print('mtv:', mtv_x, mtv_y)
end

function persist_one(dt, shape_one, shape_two, mtv_x, mtv_y)
    print('still colliding:', shape_one, shape_two)
    -- move both shape_one and shape_two to resolve the collision
    shape_one:move(mtv_x/2, mtv_y/2)
    shape_two:move(-mtv_x/2, -mtv_y/2)
end

function persist_two(dt, shape_one, shape_two, mtv_x, mtv_y)
    print('still colliding:', shape_one, shape_two)
    -- move only shape_one to resolve the collision
    shape_one:move(mtv_x, mtv_y)
end

-- ignore the translation vector
function stop(dt, shape_one, shape_two)
    print('collision resolved')
end

function love.load()
    hardoncollider.init(100)
    -- set initial callbacks
    hardoncollider.setCallbacks(start, persist_one, stop)
    -- change persist callback
    hardoncollider.setCallbacks{persist = persist_two}
end

Checks for collisions and call callbacks. Use this in love.update(dt).

A maximum time delta can be specified. dt will be chopped up in slices not bigger than this maximum and the scene is updated for each time slice.

Note that the delta time has no effect on the collision detection itself, but will be passed to the callback functions.

function love.update(dt)
    hardoncollider.update(dt, .02)
end

Automatically call hardoncollider.update(dt) after each love.update(dt).

Basically overwrites love.update(dt) with the following function:

function love.update(dt)
    _old_love_update(dt)
    hardoncollider.update(dt)
end

You can define a maximum time step. If dt is bigger than this step, the new update function will be called multiple times with a dt smaller or equal to the maximum time step:

while dt > max_step do
    update(max_step)
    dt = dt - max_step
end
update(dt)

If max_step is bigger than 1, it is assumed to declare a minimum frame rate.

Once set, you can disable the auto update with setNoAutoUpdate(), but beware that this might break other libs that hook into love.update, e.g. hump.gamestate. To prevent unexpected side effects, it's best practice to call setAutoUpdate() after any other library hooked itself into love.update()

function love.load()
    HC.init(100, collision_start, collision_persist, collision_stop)
    game_init()
    HC.setAutoUpdate(30) -- maintain at least a update framerate of 30 FPS
end

Resets love.update() to the state before calling setAutoUpdate().

if game_over then
    hardoncollider.setNoAutoUpdate()
end

Add a polygon to the collision detection system. Any non-intersection polygon will work, even convex polygons.

Note that if three consecutive points lie on a line, the middle point will be discarded. This means you cannot construct polygon shapes out of lines.

shape = hardoncollider.addPolygon(10,10, 40,50, 70,10, 40,30)

Add a rectangle shape to the collision detection system.

rect = hardoncollider.addRectangle(100,120, 200,40)

Add a circle shape to the collision detection system.

circle = hardoncollider.addCircle(400,300, 100)

Remove a shape from the collision detection system. Note that if you remove a shape in the start or persist callback, other shapes might still have collided with it, so the shape will be argument to the other calls of start or persist. In any case, the stop callback will be called in the next call to update for each shape which the removed shape collided with.

hardoncollider.remove(circle)

Add shapes to a group. Shapes in the same group will not collide with each other.

hardoncollider.addToGroup("platforms", platform1, platform2, platform3)

Remove shapes from a group.

hardoncollider.removeFromGroup("platforms", not_a_platform)

Makes a shape permeable. Ghost shapes will not collide with any other shape.

if cheat.set_ghost then
    hardoncollider.setGhost(player)
end

Makes a shape opaque. Shapes that were ghosts before will be subject to collision again.

if cheat.set_no_ghost then
    hardoncollider.setSolid(player_recording)
end

Move the shape.

circle:move(10,15) -- move the circle 10 units right and 15 units down

Rotate the shape. A rotation center can be specified. If no center is given, the shape's center is used.

rectangle:rotate(math.pi/4)

Get the center of the shape.

If the shape is a CircleShape, this is the circle center, else it's the polygon's centroid.

print("Circle at:", circle:center())

Draw the shape either filled or as outline.

circle:draw('fill')

Test if two shapes collide.

if circle:collidesWith(rectangle) then
    print("collision detected!")
end

Get the polygon's vertices. Useful for drawing with love.graphics.polygon().

love.graphics.draw('line', poly:unpack())

Get a copy of the polygon.

Since Lua uses references when simply assigning an existing polygon to a variable, unexpected things can happen when operating on the variable. Consider this code:

p1 = Polygon(10,10, 40,50, 70,10, 40,30)
p2 = p1
p3 = p1:clone()
p2:rotate(math.pi) -- p1 will be rotated, too!
p3:rotate(-math.pi) -- only p3 will be rotated

copy = poly:clone()
copy:move(10,20)

Get axis aligned bounding box.

x1,y1,x2,y2 = poly:getBBox()
-- draw bounding box
love.graphics.rectangle('line', x1,y2, x2-x1, y2-y1)

Test if a polygon is convex, i.e. a line line between any two points inside the polygon will lie in the interior of the polygon.

-- split into convex sub polygons
if not poly:isConvex() then
    list = poly:splitConvex()
else
    list = {poly:clone()}
end

Move a polygon in a direction. You can either use coordinates x,y or a hump vector.

poly:move(10,-5) -- move 10 units right and 5 units up

Rotate the polygon. You can define a rotation center. If it is omitted, the polygon will be rotated around it's centroid.

For defining a rotation center, you can either use coordinate form cx,cy or a hump vector.

p1:rotate(math.pi/2)          -- rotate p1 by 90° around it's center
p2:rotate(math.pi/4, 100,100) -- rotate p2 by 45° around the point 100,100

Split the polygon into triangles.

triangles = poly:triangulate()
for i,triangle in ipairs(triangles) do
    triangles.move(math.random(5,10), math.random(5,10))
end	

Split the polygon into convex sub polygons.

convex = concave_polygon:splitConvex()
function love.draw()
    for i,poly in ipairs(convex) do
        love.graphics.polygon('fill', poly:unpack())
    end
end

Create a merged polygon of two polygons if, and only if the two polygons share one edge. If the polygons share more than one edge, the result may be erroneous.

This function does not change either polygon, but rather create a new one.

merged = p1:mergedWith(p2)

Get coordinates of a given value, i.e. the cell index in which a given vector would be placed.

coords = hash:cellCoords(vector(love.mouse.getPosition()))

Get the cell a given vector would be placed in. This is an actual cell, not the index.

A cell is a table which's keys and value are the objects stored in the cell, i.e.:

cell = {
    [obj1] = obj1,
    [obj2] = obj2,
    ...
}

for object,_ in pairs(cell) do stuff(object) end

cell = hash:cell(vector(love.mouse.getPosition()))

Insert an object into the hash using a given bounding box.

hash:insert(shape, vector(-100,-100), vector(0,-30))

Remove an object from the hash using a bounding box.

If no bounding box is given, search the whole hash to delete the object.

hash:remove(shape, vector(-100,-100), vector(0,-30))

hash:remove(object_with_unknown_position)

Update an objects position given the old bounding box and the new bounding box.

hash:update(shape, vector(-100,-100), vector(0,-30),
                   vector(-100,-70), vector(0,0))

Query for neighbors of an object given it's bounding box.

local others = hash:getNeighbors(obj, vector(-100,-70), vector(0,0))
for _,other in ipairs(others) do
    obj:pushAway(other)
end