[pygame] Re: Hexagonal collision detection?

[rygoody <rygoody@xxxxxxxxx>]

Where do I get at this polygonal collision detection? I cannot find it
in the pygame docs.

On Sep 15, 3:30 am, René Dudfield <ren...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You could use polygon collision detection.
>
> Also you could draw your hex each with a different color, and use that
> as a collision surface.  For example, you drew your 1st hex as color
> (0,0,1,255) then your 2nd as (0,0,2,255) etc.  That would probably be
> fastest, as it's just a lookup table - pretty easy too.
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM, rygoody <rygo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello, I need to make a clickable hexagonal button. The clickable area
> > needs to actually be hexagonal, it's an essential part of the gameplay
> > dynamic. So I can't just put a hexagon picture over a square button.
> > The clickable button itself needs to be a hexagon.
>
> > I was just gonna use a linear equation to define the diagonal sides of
> > the hexagon, then go through a for loop to test on each line if the
> > click was in or out of the hexagon. But this seems so very inefficient
> > to do in python.
>
> > So I just thought I'd ask, is there any class, or any functionality in
> > anything that would be more ideal for something like this?- Hide quoted text -
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