Basic Filler engine with Box2D – part 3
Here we are with the 3rd part… this time we’ll manage collision detection.
I recommend to read step 1 and 2 before continuing.
You should how to manage collisions with Box2D, and if not go and read Understanding how Box2D manages collisions, but this time we won’t use the collision handler.
Since all collisions we have to manage are among circles, I’ll simply use the Pythagoras theorem.
The only thing that differs from the original concept is when you touch a ball or the boundaries, the ball you are drawing does not disappear but falls down. Just to make something different…
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 | package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event; import flash.events.MouseEvent; import Box2D.Dynamics.*; import Box2D.Collision.*; import Box2D.Collision.Shapes.*; import Box2D.Common.Math.*; public class colorballz extends Sprite { public var m_dbgSprite; public var m_world:b2World; public var m_phys_scale:Number=30; public var m_timestep:Number=1.0/30.0; public var m_iterations:Number=10.0; public var initX:Number=0.0; public var initY:Number=0.0; public var drawing:Boolean=false; public var b:b2Body; public var the_ball:ball; public var the_enemy:enemy; public function colorballz() { var gravity:b2Vec2=new b2Vec2(0,9.8); var worldAABB:b2AABB = new b2AABB(); worldAABB.lowerBound.Set(-1000,-1000); worldAABB.upperBound.Set(1000,1000); m_world=new b2World(worldAABB,gravity,true); //Add Our Ground AddStaticBox(250/m_phys_scale,510/m_phys_scale,250/m_phys_scale,10/m_phys_scale); AddStaticBox(250/m_phys_scale,-10/m_phys_scale,250/m_phys_scale,10/m_phys_scale); AddStaticBox(-10/m_phys_scale,250/m_phys_scale,10/m_phys_scale,250/m_phys_scale); AddStaticBox(510/m_phys_scale,250/m_phys_scale,10/m_phys_scale,250/m_phys_scale); //Add enemies for (var x:int=1; x<=3; x++) { // the first parameter is enemy's radius addEnemy(10); } addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,Update); stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,mousePressed); stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE,mouseMoved); stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,mouseReleased); } public function mousePressed(e:MouseEvent) { initX=e.localX; initY=e.localY; the_ball = new ball(); the_ball.x=mouseX; the_ball.y=mouseY; the_ball.width=1; the_ball.height=1; addChild(the_ball); drawing=true; } public function mouseMoved(e:MouseEvent) { if (drawing) { the_ball.x=mouseX; the_ball.y=mouseY; } } public function mouseReleased(e:MouseEvent) { if (drawing) { drawing=false; addCircle(mouseX,mouseY,the_ball.width/2,the_ball); } } public function addCircle(_x:Number, _y:Number, _radius:Number,ballclip:ball) { var bd:b2BodyDef = new b2BodyDef(); var cd:b2CircleDef = new b2CircleDef(); var area:Number=Math.floor(_radius*_radius*Math.PI/25)/100; cd.radius=Math.abs(_radius)/m_phys_scale; cd.density=2; cd.restitution=0.7; cd.friction=2; bd.position.Set(_x/m_phys_scale, _y/ m_phys_scale); bd.userData=ballclip; b=m_world.CreateBody(bd); b.CreateShape(cd); b.SetMassFromShapes(); } public function addEnemy(_radius:Number) { var x_speed:Number=Math.random()*10; var bd:b2BodyDef = new b2BodyDef(); var cd:b2CircleDef = new b2CircleDef(); the_enemy = new(enemy); cd.radius=Math.abs(_radius)/m_phys_scale; cd.density=20; // setting restitution to 1 should grant the enemy won't lose speed when bouncing // on STATIC objects cd.restitution=1; cd.friction=2; // randomly placing the enemy bd.position.Set((Math.random()*300+50)/m_phys_scale, (Math.random()*300+50)/ m_phys_scale); bd.userData=the_enemy; bd.userData.name="enemy"; bd.userData.width=_radius*2; bd.userData.height=_radius*2; addChild(the_enemy); b=m_world.CreateBody(bd); b.CreateShape(cd); b.SetMassFromShapes(); // assigning random speed to enemy b.m_linearVelocity.x=x_speed; b.m_linearVelocity.y=10-x_speed; } public function AddStaticBox(_x:Number,_y:Number,_halfwidth:Number,_halfheight:Number) { var bodyDef:b2BodyDef = new b2BodyDef(); bodyDef.position.Set(_x,_y); var boxDef:b2PolygonDef = new b2PolygonDef(); boxDef.SetAsBox(_halfwidth,_halfheight); boxDef.density=0.0; var body:b2Body=m_world.CreateBody(bodyDef); body.CreateShape(boxDef); body.SetMassFromShapes(); } public function Update(e:Event) { var dist_x:Number; var dist_y:Number; var distance:Number; // variable to handle enemy speed var enemy_speed:Number; // variable to handle the speed offset:it's the ratio between // the real enemy speed and the minimum allowed speed var speed_offset:Number; if (drawing) { the_ball.width+=2; the_ball.height+=2; // checking if the ball is touching boundaries if (the_ball.x-the_ball.width/2<0||the_ball.x+the_ball.width/2>500||the_ball.y-the_ball.width/2<0||the_ball.y+the_ball.width/2>500) { drawing=false; addCircle(mouseX,mouseY,the_ball.width/2,the_ball); } } m_world.Step(m_timestep,m_iterations); for (var bb:b2Body=m_world.m_bodyList; bb; bb=bb.m_next) { if (bb.m_userData is Sprite) { if (bb.m_userData.name=="enemy") { // determining enemy speed enemy_speed=Math.abs(bb.GetLinearVelocity().x)+Math.abs(bb.GetLinearVelocity().y); // if the speed is too slow... (lower than 10) if (enemy_speed<10) { // calculating the offset speed_offset=10/enemy_speed; // multiplying the horizontal and vertical components of the speed // by the offset bb.m_linearVelocity.x=bb.GetLinearVelocity().x*speed_offset; bb.m_linearVelocity.y=bb.GetLinearVelocity().y*speed_offset; } } bb.m_userData.x=bb.GetPosition().x*30; bb.m_userData.y=bb.GetPosition().y*30; // if I am drawing the ball... if (drawing) { // determining the distance between the current ball and the one I am drawing dist_x=the_ball.x-bb.m_userData.x; dist_y=the_ball.y-bb.m_userData.y; // notice I am not using any square root to make the script lighter distance=dist_x*dist_x+dist_y*dist_y; // if balls collide... if (distance<(the_ball.width/2+bb.m_userData.width/2)*(the_ball.width/2+bb.m_userData.width/2)) { // release the drawing ball and set drawing to false, as if I released the mouse // here you should lose a life... drawing=false; addCircle(mouseX,mouseY,the_ball.width/2,the_ball); } } } } } } } |
And this is the result:
You should already know ho to play…
Download the source code and make your own filler game
They can be easily customized to meet the unique requirements of your project.

























This post has 4 comments
Uchiha
This actually seems to work better than the original engine when it comes to handle the big balls collisions.
Andrew Jacobs
Thanks for posting this. It’s great to get insight into using the Box2D engine.
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Santi
Can u explain how to make the differents colours of balls and not always the sameone??
And other thing, can u show how to take the % of that ball in the square??
Thnx
Santi