Having a problem with collision layers?
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| <stupid mode> I was. I've never needed to use multiple ones before. Anyway, I added a new layer last night and was getting stuff highlighting when it shouldn't be. After 45 minutes of fannying about and getting different but still wrong results, I noticed something interesting. I was using constants for my layers and assigning values of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on. I didn't realise at the time but by using a value of 3, I was actually adding stuff to collision layer 1 *and* layer 2. They're actually referenced by values 1, 2, 4, 8, 16... and so on. I now realise that its been done this way so you can check for collisions on multiple layers at once, but it confused the hell out of me for a while. </stupid mode> |
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| I was using constants for my layers... You know that COLLISION_LAYER_ALL and COLLISION_LAYER_1 -> COLLISION_LAYER_32 are already defined, yes? |
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| I did, but didn't know what the actual values were until I checked last night. However, its much clearer (to me, at least) having them called LAYER_GUI, LAYER_TILES etc. That way I know what's being put onto which layer just by looking at the code. |
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