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Ryan Williams
Ryan Williams

Reputation: 129

JavaScript Polygon Collision Detection

I am working on an asteroids-like arcade game using HTML's canvas and JavaScript. I currently have a bunch of randomly generated shapes ("asteroids") with a random number of points (3, 4, or 5) and a random size at random locations.

I am trying set up a collision detection system with these polygons. I have been using SAT.js (https://github.com/jriecken/sat-js) for this. However, I can't accurately seem to draw the invisible, collision polygons around the actual polygons rendered on the screen.

Here is what I have in my asteroid class where I am rendering the asteroids. I am currently only testing with 3 points in the shapes (triangles). I turned the 4 and 5 point asteroids off.

ctx.moveTo(0, 0);
ctx.lineTo(10 + size, 20); 
ctx.lineTo(10 + size, 20 + size);  
ctx.closePath();

Here is the corresponding SAT.js code.

/**
  * @function createCollisionPolygon
  * Traces the outline of the asteroid to allow it to detect collisions
  * based on the number of points the shape has (3, 4, or 5)
  * @param {asteroid} The asteroid to make collision detectable
  * @return The traced polygon
  */
function createCollisionPolygon(asteroid)
{
  var V = SAT.Vector;
  var P = SAT.Polygon;
  var polygon;
  switch(asteroid.randomNumPoints)
  {
    // 3 point polygon
    case 3:
      polygon = new P(new V(asteroid.position.x, asteroid.position.y), [
      new V(10 + asteroid.size, 0),
      new V(asteroid.position.x,asteroid.position.y),
      new V(10 + asteroid.size, 20 + asteroid.size)
      ]);
      break;
  }
  return polygon;
}

/**
  * @function checkCollision
  * Checks for collisions between any two asteroids
  * @param {polygon1} The first asteroid  
  * @param {polygon2} The next asteroid
  * @return True if there was a collision, false otherwise
  */
function checkCollision(polygon1, polygon2)
{
  var response = new SAT.Response();
  var collided = SAT.testPolygonPolygon(polygon1, polygon2, response);
  return collided;
}

Which is later being called here: 

 
  for(var i = 0; i < asteroids.length - 1; i++)
  {
    var asteroid1 = asteroids[i];
    var asteroid2 = asteroids[i+1];

    // Trace an invisible outline around each asteroid
    var polygon1 = createCollisionPolygon(asteroid1); 
    var polygon2 = createCollisionPolygon(asteroid2);

    // console.log("Polygon 1: "+ console.log(polygon1.points[0]
    //  + console.log(polygon1.points[1]) + console.log(polygon1.points[2])));
    // console.log("Polygon 2: " + console.log(polygon2.points[0]
    //  + console.log(polygon2.points[1]) + console.log(polygon2.points[2])));

    // Check if there is a collision
    if(checkCollision(polygon1, polygon2))
    {
      asteroid1.color = 'red';
      asteroid2.color = 'red';
      console.log("Collision detected.");
    }
  }

Any help would be appreciated - I've been trying to figure this out for days. Thanks!

Upvotes: 7

Views: 4009

Answers (1)

Alexandr
Alexandr

Reputation: 876

Because there are no canvas clip properties for retrieving intersection area. I would suggest next solution. Use one of js libraries for poligon intersection calculation, for example Greiner-Hormann. Using this lib, you can easily intersect you shapes and detect collision(if intersection result is not null then collision exists).

example:

var canvas = document.getElementById('myCanvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');

function drawTriangle(trianglePoints, color)
{
  ctx.beginPath();
  ctx.moveTo(trianglePoints[0].x, trianglePoints[0].y);
  ctx.lineTo(trianglePoints[1].x, trianglePoints[1].y); 
  ctx.lineTo(trianglePoints[2].x, trianglePoints[2].y);  
  ctx.closePath();
  ctx.fillStyle = color;
  ctx.fill();
 }

function getTriangle(size, startPointX, startPointY)
{
  return [{x:startPointX,y:startPointY},
          {x:startPointX + size,y:startPointY},
          {x:startPointX,y:startPointY + size},
          {x:startPointX,y:startPointY}];
}

//sample triangles
var triangle1 = getTriangle(50,100,100);
var triangle2 = getTriangle(50,100,90);
var triangle3 = getTriangle(50,200,100);
var triangle4 = getTriangle(50,280,90);

//draw all triangles
drawTriangle(triangle1,'#d3d3d3');
drawTriangle(triangle2,'#e3e3e3');
drawTriangle(triangle3,'red');
drawTriangle(triangle4,'blue');

//intersaction results
console.log("intersection exists");
console.log(greinerHormann.intersection( triangle1 , triangle2));
console.log("intersection not exists result of intersaction - null");
console.log(greinerHormann.intersection( triangle3 , triangle2));
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/w8r/GreinerHormann/master/dist/greiner-hormann.min.js"></script>
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="578" height="200"></canvas>

Upvotes: 1

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