hittest on a masked object?

Question

Hi

I am developing a game, which has heads that popup at random
from behind two 
hills. the user throws snowballs at the heads. I am using the
hittest 
function to test for the collison. the problem i m having is
when the heads 
are hidden, the hittest is still coming back as true if the
snowball hits 
the area where the head is hidden. does anyone have any
suggestions?

you can see the current version i m having problems with -

http://www.wiredmonkey.co.uk/snowball

Thanks in advance

Shaun

TimSymons · Answer

I have 2 ideas for you. Not sure how easy they would be to implement in to your current coding.

1) Use a flag variable that you would set to "true" if the head was visible and "false" when not. Then when using the hitTest() method you could also test to see if the variable was also "true". If it was then it was a hit if not then nothing.

2) If your mask is a movieclip, the use the hitTest method on the snowball and the head and also on the head and the mask. If they both came back "true" then it would be a hit, otherwise not.

Tim

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