yall idk how to make hitboxes i need help

here's the basic idea:

forever
switch costume to [hitbox v] // a rectangular costume in the same position as the player costume
check if touching stuff
switch costume to [player v]
end

doing this will make the part of the sprite that actually collides with surroundings the “hitbox” costume, rather than the original costume

Thanks

ametrine_ is correct, however i would put the hiding, showing, and hitbox detection code in its own custom block set to “run without screen refresh” because you don't want it to flash the hitbox costume.

ametrine_ wrote:

here's the basic idea:

forever
switch costume to [hitbox v] // a rectangular costume in the same position as the player costume
check if touching stuff
switch costume to [player v]
end

doing this will make the part of the sprite that actually collides with surroundings the “hitbox” costume, rather than the original costume

this DOES work, but you can also do

when @greenflag clicked::hat events
forever
go to (sprite v)//the sprite you want it to hitbox
set (ghost v) effect to [100]
end

Edit: Please note I have not tested this yet.

bsteichman wrote:

ametrine_ is correct, however i would put the hiding, showing, and hitbox detection code in its own custom block set to “run without screen refresh” because you don't want it to flash the hitbox costume.

you only need to do this if there's any blocks that wait until the next frame before progressing the code

Create-Scratch101 wrote:

this DOES work, but you can also do

when @greenflag clicked::hat events
forever
go to (sprite v)//the sprite you want it to hitbox
set (ghost v) effect to [100]
end

Edit: Please note I have not tested this yet.

this works, but you have to make the hitbox sprite behind the sprite it's hitboxing (so its goes to the other sprite after it moves)

bsteichman wrote:

ametrine_ is correct, however i would put the hiding, showing, and hitbox detection code in its own custom block set to “run without screen refresh” because you don't want it to flash the hitbox costume.

it will not flash the costume unless you have a repeat loop in there as each loop lasts 1 frame

forever
move (1) steps
just some random stuff, like alot :: operators
end

it wouldn't be slow because there's a lot of code, but instead because its all happening each frame. even if you removed the stuff it would be the same speed (if this stuff didn't affect your fps)
it will not flash, even if you put a hide and show at each end of the script

when [1] key pressed
if <touching [ player] ?> then
(switch costumes)
if <touching [dummy] ?> then
(switch costumes)
end
end

some code for an attack fill custom blocks with switch costumes and pause blocks with no spaces also

Whatdidyousay245 wrote:

bsteichman wrote:

ametrine_ is correct, however i would put the hiding, showing, and hitbox detection code in its own custom block set to “run without screen refresh” because you don't want it to flash the hitbox costume.

it will not flash the costume unless you have a repeat loop in there as each loop lasts 1 frame

forever
move (1) steps
just some random stuff, like alot :: operators
end

it wouldn't be slow because there's a lot of code, but instead because its all happening each frame. even if you removed the stuff it would be the same speed (if this stuff didn't affect your fps)
it will not flash, even if you put a hide and show at each end of the script

Thank

what I do is make a separate sprite, set ghost to 100 and make it go to the player controlled sprite. Then whenever the sprite is touched by anything damaging, it broadcasts a message, which the player controlled sprite picks up and starts the “damage” sequence of code


hitbox code

when green flag clicked
set [ghost v] effect to (100)
forever
go to [playerconrolledsprite v]
if <touching [damaging things v] ?> then
broadcast [just got damaged v]
end
end

player controlled code

when I receive [just got damaged v]
do the damage code

Unique-codes wrote:

yall idk how to make hitboxes i need help

I would suggest this video (this link will take you out of Scratch)