Best way to get Collision points x/y?

I know its been asked a few times on these forums. As you can see here, the first collision works fine, but as it clips the side of the "energy wave" sprite, the "impact effect" is in the wrong place - its floating in space not on the object it hit.

I was wondering what the best, quick and dirty "it looks good enough" way would be. Just something a little better than this. I don't want a ton of overhead (but maybe that is what is required?). Looking for suggestions from people who've had this issue before and what their solution was/is.

I only need it for a couple of weapon types and its not that big of a deal if they are off sometimes.

thanks!

We can cast rays with the line of sight behavior now, so you can cast a cone of rays out from the origin point, and get a higher resolution of impact coordinates.

Alternatively you can pin invisible helper sprites to image points on your projectile as sensors and use those for collisions (disable the rest when one of them hits).

So if I'm looking at that right looks like you have the origin of the wave at the front so you're doing something like this?:

on wave collides with ship
-- create explosion at (wave.x, wave.y)
-- destroy wave

on wave collides with ship
-- create explosion at (clamp(wave.x,ship.bboxleft,ship.bboxright), clamp(wave.y, ship.bboxtop, ship.bboxbottom))
-- destroy wave

on wave collides with ship
-- create explosion at (wave.x-ship.x, wave.y-ship.y)
-- set explosion position to (self.x*cos(ship.angle)+self.y*sin(ship.angle), self.x*cos(ship.angle+90)+self.y*sin(ship.angle+90)
-- set explosion position to (clamp(self.x, -ship.width/2, ship.width/2), clamp(self.y, -ship.height/2, ship.height/2))
-- set explosion position to (self.x*cos(ship.angle)+self.y*cos(ship.angle+90)+ship.x, self.x*sin(ship.angle)+self.y*sin(ship.angle+90)+ship.y)
-- destroy wave

on wave collides with ship
-- create explosion at (angle(ship.x,ship.y,wave.x,wave.y), min(100, distance(ship.x,ship.y,wave.x,wave.y)))
-- set explosion position to ( ship.x+self.y*cos(self.x), ship.y+self.y*sin(self.x))
-- destroy wave

on wave collides with ship
-- create explosion at (wave.x, wave.y)
-- explosion: move -max(0, (self.x-ship.x)*cos(180)+(self.y-ship.y)*sin(180)-50) pixels at angle: 180
-- explosion: move -max(0, (self.x-ship.x)*cos(-60)+(self.y-ship.y)*sin(-60)-50) pixels at angle: -60
-- explosion: move -max(0, (self.x-ship.x)*cos(60)+(self.y-ship.y)*sin(60)-50) pixels at angle: 60
-- destroy wave

on wave collides with ship
-- create explosion at (wave.x, wave.y)
-- explosion: move -max(0, (self.x-ship.x)*cos(ship.angle)+(self.y-ship.y)*sin(ship.angle)-ship.width/2) pixels at angle: ship.angle
-- explosion: move -max(0, (self.x-ship.x)*cos(ship.angle+90)+(self.y-ship.y)*sin(ship.angle+90)-ship.height/2) pixels at angle: ship.angle+90
-- explosion: move -max(0, (self.x-ship.x)*cos(ship.angle+180)+(self.y-ship.y)*sin(ship.angle+180)-ship.width/2) pixels at angle: ship.angle+180
-- explosion: move -max(0, (self.x-ship.x)*cos(ship.angle-90)+(self.y-ship.y)*sin(ship.angle-90)-ship.height/2) pixels at angle: ship.angle-90
-- destroy wave

R0J0hound I was following your other thread suggestion, but I guess it doesn't work when I apply it. It just spawns it, in the same place as I was before and only when its a straight on collision (but not always). If it hits the side the code doesn't trigger. It must have something to do with the overlap during Bullet? also this code is triggered from OnCollision (opposed to isOverlapping)

perhaps I should follow your other suggestions...

and to complicate things the "energy wave" has 4 hp, so it can hit and damage 4 things before it dissipates.

AND there are multiple collision boxes since it is animated to "grow".

looking at your clamp example now...

R0J0hound oh it seems like when the ship getting "hit" is a thin rectangle and the wave is perpendicular it doesn't quite work.

Was the dropbox example you gave a generic triangle/square/rect? or was it for a specific shape?

My "Allcraft" family has all sorts of shaped ships, is there a good generic way to do it?

Made a quick experiment with line of sight, might be useful for reference.

dropbox.com/s/9axc8tp0jkmyi8x/accuratecollisiondetectionexample.c3p

Still some bugs to work out, such as when the bullet hits a second object while still overlapping one that was hit before. The add obstacle action doesn't seem to care about picked instances.

Edit: I'm logically stumped for now on how to fix the issue with multiple overlapped objects on collision and 'hitting' the wrong/previous object. Might be a hard limitation if you can't pick instances to interact with for line of sight.

It was a specific shape. each action has an angle and distance to specify the lines that make up the shape. For example a triangle can be made up of three lines: red,blue and green.

That said, it can be made generic but in c2 I can't access the collision polygon so I'd use imagepoints instead. As long as the points make up a convex shape and points are placed clockwise. Although the winding order can be worked around.

edit:

Here you go:

dropbox.com/s/xp1tprnefmdwf0b/convex_clamping_generic_with_imagepoints.capx

Just as long as it's a convex shape and the origin is within that shape. CW or CCW doesn't matter.

R0J0hound yes! (I changed them to polypoints) I think that will work! it doesn't work well on convex shapes that are narrow, but its never outside the convex shape, so that is fine enough for me! I don't really have any narrow shapes other than that test target thing.

very much appreciate everyone's help! thanks so much!