vast tangle
I'm trying to make a cone area shape for my 2d game. I kind of want it to be a real cone instead of a triangle, with a curved border.
I was thinking along the lines of, maybe there's like an easy way to mask over a circle shape. So the resulting area is only between two particular degrees. But I haven't found an engine option to implement this.
Otherwise I've been trying out the manual bezier curves but it's a bit messy.
So is there any easy approach I'm missing?
limpid loom
you can use Vector2.dot() to check how far off from the direction the other point is. You would pair this with a CircleShape
vast tangle
yeah I can see how that would easily handle the collision aspect. But what if I want to display the cone as an area?
I already experimented a bit with Polygon2D and an animatedTexture, but making the curves is a problem.
oh wait maybe I can use from_angle() to create vectors and find the points I want
I'll try that
limpid loom
yeah I can see how that would easily handle the collision aspect. But what if I ...
Drawing cones is only marginally easier than coding their overlap.
But there is a draw_arc() function. Not sure how you'd fill in that arc tho :/
near fox
radially?
vast tangle
I'll look into draw_arc, thanks
although it only supports a base color?
oh nvm "unfilled arc" huh
yeah I might need to get into shader territory
near fox
bresenhams line algorithm!
vast tangle
it seems that's used for straight lines? but my problem are curved ones atm
near fox
it seems that's used for straight lines? but my problem are curved ones atm
just fill it in a fan shape XD
i actually don't remember how i used to do rendering filling in between the lines haven't done that since 2017 lol
near fox
uh try using curve 2d
design the curve you want and then call the tesselate function
then use that array as a polygon
?
vast tangle
that or I could just use cone sprites, since the collision detection is mostly taken care of