[PAID PLUGIN REQUEST] Enable/disable collisions for individual tiles on TileMap

Just a random try

1.) Add a transparent Sprite on top of the water tile where you want to disable collision(size should be little less than size of tile otherwise it will interfere with neighbor tiles). Where you are using "collision for water tile" ,add another event "Sprite not overlapping water tile".

I may be wrong 😂

Im sure dop2000 knows how to work around it, but it shouldn't be needed.

"Work arounds" like that might be good in a small project, but with bigger ones, things get messy with "work arounds" + "work arounds"...

You can remove collision per tile manualy these days, so i don't understand why we could not disable it via events.

A good rule is: "Every setting you can change manualy, you should be able to change on runtime with events. (-browser restrictions of course)

Another workaround would be to use 2 tilemaps, one for visual representation, another invisible one for obstacles (with a single obstacle tile in the tileset).

You could then rebuild the collision map on layout start or tilemap creation by iterating through each tile and testing for collision (slow) or defining obstacle according to tile IDs (fast). And then, remove obstacle tiles by iterating through bridges and what not.

Here's a crude exemple : drive.google.com/file/d/18kc2dI-WpgbQXATVs-NWX4H_GTBHdnyV/view

That's how I originally did this. However, like I said, the tilemaps are large and complex, and updated often. Many tiles have custom collision polygons, many tiles have disabled collisions. Maintaining cloned copies of these tilemaps just for collisions will be difficult.

Magistross Thanks for the info!

I posted this idea on the suggestions platform a few months ago, but it will never get enough votes to be considered by Scirra..