Creating A Non-rectangular Bounding Box
Hey there,
I'm making an RPG game in Flash 5, which involves using the mouse to click in a space, and then a character moves towards it. However, when I do this, the character can move anywhere and therefore ends up walking up the walls. I've tried using If (this._y >= num), but because the border between the floor and the walls is not perfectly horizontal, this doesn't work. I've also tried creating a movieclip with the same shape as the floor, and using a If (this.hitTest(_root.boundBox)) command, but that doesn't work either because it counts the bounds of the MC to be rectangular too.
Any ideas how I can fix this?
Thanks a lot,
Matt
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Posted on: 03-27-2005, 11:49 AM
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