Clipping for an isometric game

[fugigoose]

I started on an Isometric game (And I really wanna finish a project), but I encountered a problem. When you use things like sprite.inside and sprite.intersect, it detects the rectangle around it, not just the visible part (the non-transparent part). Why can't you rotate a rectangle shape, that'd solve my prob or is there a better way to do cliping where I can do an isometric game or will I need to use directors 3D capabilities. I'd rather stick to good ol sprites... I wish I knew how they did it in games like Diablo II, but I guess thats a whole other language, but I could implement it. Pleez help.

 

[Horrid]

spirte(sprite1).intersects(sprite2)

if both sprites have a matte ink, their actual outlines, not the quads, are used. Directly from the manual.

I expect Diablo cheats in that you can walk behind object hence the collision most likely would occur on a recangle object on the floor plane. I expect if you really play with diablo and its collision you will notice that everything is a rectangle (try walking on a diagonal at a round pillar, do your feet touch the base? I haven't tried it but I expect you will stop a few pixels short)

 

[fugigoose]

Thanx, worx great; One thing though: the background of the sprite is not trans. The white around it is, but the white paches within the picture are not (eg. a frootloop, the center is white). Thats why I was using BackgroundTrans ink, not matte. But now i need both. I need a BackgroundTransparentMatte Any suggestions.