collision_normal

The purpose of this script is to determine what direction the sprite of an instance is facing at a particular point on or near the sprite, ie. a 2D analogue of a surface normal. It does this by sampling an area around a given point. As each point is sampled, if there is no collision, a vector is generated from the center of the sample area to the sampled point. These vectors are summed to produce an overall directional vector pointing away from any detected surface within the sampled area.

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Returns a 2D "surface normal" (in degrees) at a given point on or near an instance detected within a circular test area.
COPY/// collision_normal(x1,y1,obj [,rad [,res]])
//
//  Returns a 2D "surface normal" (in degrees) at a given point
//  on or near an instance detected within a circular test area.
//  If no collision is found, (-1) is returned.
//
//      x1,y1       point on the surface, real
//      obj         object or instance (or all), real
//      res         resolution of test (default 1), real
//
{
var xx  = argument[0];
var yy  = argument[1];
var obj = argument[2];
var res = 1;
if (argument_count > 3) rad = argument[3];
if (argument_count > 4) res = argument[4];
if (res <= 0) res = 1;
var nx = 0;
var ny = 0;
if (collision_circle(xx, yy, rad, obj, true, true)) {
for (var j=res; j<=rad; j+=res) {
for (var i=0; i<rad; i+=res) {
if (point_distance(0, 0, i, j) <= rad) {
if (!collision_point(xx+i, yy+j, obj, true, true)) { nx += i; ny += j; }
if (!collision_point(xx+j, yy-i, obj, true, true)) { nx += j; ny -= i; }
if (!collision_point(xx-i, yy-j, obj, true, true)) { nx -= i; ny -= j; }
if (!collision_point(xx-j, yy+i, obj, true, true)) { nx -= j; ny += i; }
}
}
}
if (nx == 0 && ny == 0) return (-1);
return point_direction(0, 0, nx, ny);
}else{
return (-1);
}
}


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