how do I have a hittest that isn't a square boundry? 1

[WhiteTiger]

I've been using Flashes hittest to test if 'paintballs' or their splat hit an object after flight animation...but I'd like it to detect if the object itself hit it, not just a square area. because in the corners I dont have pieces of the object...looks kinda funny when I didn't hit a button and it goes anyhow. Regards,
Anthny

 

[wangbar]

There are two formats for hitTest

1. clip.hitTest(target);//tests for collision of two clips by their rectangular bounding boxes

2. clip.hitTest(x,y,shapeflag);//set shapeflag to "TRUE" and it tests if the clip hit an actual pixel on the screen, ignoring the bounding box.

Use 2

Eg if your paintball clip is duplicated at the mouse position you can test if there's a hit by doing something like this...

clip.hitTest(_root._xmouse,_root._ymouse,true);

Slainte

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