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I am making a top down stabber.(no guns) (just knife) For collision, I have 3 boxes, one on the right one on the left and on at the back of the charactor. The collision was working perfectly, when I have a visible placeholder image for the collision box. But when I made the boxes transparent, collision with the boxes stopped! What gives?

Not sure if I remember correctly, but I think there was a difference in DBC on using SPRITE HIT and SPRITE COLLISION.

Sprite Collision was suppose to not give a result if transparent portions of sprites were overlapping, where as Sprite Hit reports a collision for the bounding rectangle of each sprite.

(!)-Note- Not sure if it actually worked right.
But If you were using the Sprite Collision command, and now it's not working... Try replacing it with Sprite Hit.

In DBC what code are you using to make the boxes trasparent? Are you doing via your paint program, or via Sprite Alpha commands? Again I can't remember exactly what's available in DBC.

Hope this helps.

No collision was detected for sprite hit or sprite collision. Good news is that DBC has a Hide Sprite command! It works perfectly.

Thanks zensassem! I remember way back when, I used to do a lot more DB, I used to always see your posts. You answered a lot of my questions too. I read your 2d Tutorials. You're obviously still very active on this board! Didnt you used to have a siggy with that guy from your avatar swishing a cloak around?

Ooska, glad it worked out. I was thinking along those lines at the end of my post, hence the question about how you were making your collision squares transparent. Unfortunately, I don't have DBC installed right now, and I couldn't remember the difference in command set compared with DBP.

Out of curiosity and for future reference, what method (before using HIDE SPRITE) were you using to have you sprites transparent?

P.S.
Thanks for the nice comments. Yes, I had the animation in my sig. I'll have to check to see if I still have it @ photbucket. I hadn't been active for a while. I took another long break, and spent about a year working with linux C++ & OpenGL. I'm going to try and complete some ideas I have, rather than spending as much time as I did reading posts. I just have to manage myself better.