Melee attack detection

[grimor]

I'm wondering about how to make melee attack collision detection. I've got a player spritesheet with attack animation, but don't know how to detect collision in front of my sprite in for example 30 pixels right. I was thinking about adding additional sprite on attack with hitbox which is 30px wide in front of my player, but don't know it is right thing to do.

 

 

[rich]

I would probably use a weapon specific hit box for this, yes.

[grimor]

Ok, so is there method to attach additional hitbox to a Sprite, or i have to make additional Sprite for that ?

[rich]

I would create a Player class which contained various sprites (body, weapon, maybe some other sensors you might need). Would like use a Group as its base.

[grimor]

Yeah, i was started doing it already that way Ok, last question. If i make Player class, can I somehow put there game.load.spritesheet statements ? What i mean is can I "append" some code into preload(), create(), update(), render() methods from Player class ?

 

Or it there other way to handle a lot of preloading code ?

[rich]

Sort of - a preload function won't be looked for or called automatically (because it's a class, not a state), but there is nothing stopping you from populating the Loader yourself and telling it to start loading.