HitTest without draggable

[gandoulfe 2 Likes (Newbie)]

Hi, 

 

First, sorry for my english, I am french. 

 

I made some particles, and I want to erase them with an eraser.

There is no draggable element, the eraser moves by himself automatically (with a bezier path).

 

I want the particles under the eraser to disappear.

 

I am trying to use the HitTest() function but i cannot figure out to use it without a draggable element.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

David.

See the Pen GZbxYL by DavidN (@DavidN) on CodePen

[GreenSock 8,117 Likes (Superhero)]

Draggable has a static hitTest() method that you can just feed two elements into, but beware that it simply uses the bounding boxes to measure overlaps, so it's not literally pixel-perfect for rotated or oddly-shaped things (that'd be a lot more processor-intensive). For example:

//simple overlap test
if (Draggable.hitTest(element1, element2)) {
   //do stuff
}

You can also check that a certain amount or percentage of the elements overlap. See the docs: 

http://greensock.com/docs/#/HTML5/GSAP/Utils/Draggable/hitTest/

[OSUblake 9,990 Likes (Superhero)]

You would need to do SAT collision detection...

See the Pen 40b18190c60161960d8d12ff4fa71d1d?editors=0010 by osublake (@osublake) on CodePen

 

That's very hard to do with HTML elements because you have to calculate the current transformation matrix for every point on your elements. I think this would be easier to do with SVG masks.

See the Pen a9eb0affd4f2c0c9f05a0e33168fe185 by osublake (@osublake) on CodePen

[gandoulfe 2 Likes (Newbie)]

Thanks a lot for your help guys.

 

It's a bit more complicate than I expected !

 

I will try it soon. I will let know know if I make it !

[gandoulfe 2 Likes (Newbie)]

I finally made it  ! 

 

See the Pen GZbxYL by DavidN (@DavidN) on CodePen

 

I have used a ticker event listener to listen when there is a hit between my eraser and my particles 

 

TweenMax.ticker.addEventListener("tick", hitDetection);

and the hitTest function

 

//simple overlap test
if (Draggable.hitTest(element1, element2)) {
   //do stuff
}

If you have an idea to improve the code, please tell me.

 

Thanks.