How do I find the touched/clicked sprite?

Hi,

this image shows a part of my game. Here the yellow stone can be moved to the highlighted green or white fields.

Unfortunately, if I click the bottom-left part of the green field, a simple Touch condition as shown below selects both fields, and the Move function is called with the parameters of the white field, not the green.

How can I make sure that the correct field intercepts the touch event?

If you select both i.e. they are overlapping sprites, shouldn't it run the function with both? Did you check the logging to see what is being passed through, is it data for both 'fields'? You will be able to force one of them to be picked, just wondering if it's an issue because the sprites are overlapping and if both sets of data are passed through at the moment.

Ok so because it's an issue with overlapping sprites being touched together, before getting too convoluted on the calculations you could try something like this : as green is the priority sprite, ensure that green is at top of z order on the layer, above white. Then with your on touch Fields condition, you can add new condition to pick fields > is on top. Try this first and see if that accomplishes what you wanted which is to pick the green as a priority when on the borders.

this won't work for me unfortunately as there is no priority between to white or green, it was just as an example to show my problem.

Looking at the whole field I have, I have many overlapping sprites, and there is no priority between them (imagine a chess board with non-square fields).

Is there a way I can detect the color below the touch point? I could try to figure out from that the sprite that I'm interested in. (I have 6 different colors, I know their RGB codes.)

Not sure on the RGB thing but surely there must be a priority of tiles, such as when you click one in the corner, which one are you expecting it to use? In your original post you mentioned that it should be passing through green and not white when the bottom corner of the green is clicked. A simpler fix may be to put in invisible borders that when clicked do nothing so you have to clearly click on a section if that doesn't affect the gameplay too much.

There is no priority of tiles. You are free to move to both tiles.

I've been googleing around to figure out how to read the color from the canvas. As it seems that Construct3 uses webgl2 type canvas, this is to work: stackoverflow.com/questions/44070167/get-color-at-position-webgl

Unfortunately, it does not.

I've figured out that Touch.X and Touch.Y will give me the correct positions, but still no luck.

in the preview console I've been trying the following, but in the end I did not get the expected results:

```

var a = $("mycanvas") // I don't know where $ come from, but it's defined :)

var b = a.getContext("webgl2")

var pixels = new Uint8Array(4)

b.readPixels(318, 498, 1, 1, b.RGBA, b.UNSIGNED_BYTE, pixels)

```

This should set pixels to the rgba values I need, but it's not set. :(

Any ideas how to read the color from the canvas?

I don't think detecting colour resolves the issue, right? You will be detecting the colour of 2 fields and then would still have to decide which is the correct one for the player.

I have the solution. In the sprite editor one can define the sprite's collision position. It seems that the collision field is actually the touchable area too.

Yes, the collision box is the same area which will interact with your mouse.

Ok, wasn't sure how you create objects, the way the image showcased was looking i was thinking you drawing the objects with canvas plugin, at which point the detection would have been a bit awkward.

Awesome then. Have fun! :D