[Hardon Collider] How to resolve collisions properly

[MadByte]

Hey guys,

it's very likely that I'm missing something, but I can't find any good way to resolve my collisions using Hardon Collider. The collision detection part works like a charm, but I don't get how I'm supposed to "connect" the colliding shapes to my actual in-game entities in order to resolve collisions between let's say different types of objects. Here's an example:

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-- main.lua
-- Pseudo code btw

local HC	= require("HC")

local Platform	= Platform() -- type = "Platform"
local Player	= Player() -- type = "Player"
local Enemy	= Enemy() -- type = "Enemy"



function love.load()
    	-- add shapes to my entities
	Platform:addShape(HC.rectangle(...))
	Player:addShape(HC.rectangle(...))
	Enemy:addShape(HC.rectangle(...))
end


function love.update(dt)
	-- update entities
	Platform:update(dt)
	Player:update(dt)
	Enemy:update(dt)
end


function love.draw()
	-- draw entities
	Platform:draw()
	Player:draw()
	Enemy:draw()
end

...



-- Player.lua

local HC = require("HC")

...

function Player:updateCollisions(dt)
	-- check for collisions
	for shape, delta in pairs(HC.collisions(self.shape)) do
		-- now I need to know what type the other entity is to resolve the collision
		-- because the player ie should respond differently to platforms (ie "land on") then to enemies (ie "add damage")
		if otherEntityType = "Platform" then
			-- Do stuff
		elseif otherEntityType  = "Enemy" then
			-- do other stuff
		end
	end
end

...

So, what I expect to get from the lib is a way to differentiate between object types in order to resolve my collisions. With love.physics ie you can add data to a shape using shape:setData(data)... and bump takes a table (world:add(OBJECT, x, y, w, h) which then gets returned if a collision occurs. As workaround I already altered the library so that it takes an additional reference to the object that "owns" the shape (similar to bump), but I guess that's not what I'm supposed to do here.

How would you guys solve this problem? Thanks in advance.

[4aiman]

HC isn't designed to keep tabs on anything. So you should come up with your own way of storing data.
Creating a wrapper to swap underlying collision lib on-the-fly may be a good idea.
I'd use HC only in the case I absolutely need non-aabb collisions.

[vietphan]

Maybe too late for you. But I resolve this problem by this ref link: https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=84763
Some function must be update such as: HC.neighbors(shape). You can read full HC collisions function to customize it: https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=84763