[SOLVED] Two Rectangles, One Physics Body how?

[kentsusai]

Hi all,

I've searched the forums and I haven't had much luck.

I have created two Rectangle objects. I want both of those Rectangles to maintain a particular displacement. For example, Rectangle rect1 is at co-ordinates X,Y and Rectangle rect2 is at co-ordinates X,Y+1.

I want both of these Rectangles to fall and collide together.

I have tried attaching them as child objects to an Entity object but you can't use the PhysicsFactory.createBoxBody with Entity objects.

I'm sure someone has done this before. Any idea?

Thanks!

[RealMayo]

You do it like this...
http://www.andengine.org/forums/gles1/complex-collision-surface-t5593.html#p24822

[kentsusai]

Is there a working example of this anywhere?

BTW, are you sure you can register a Rectangle object or an Entity object using PhysicsConnector?

[kentsusai]

Came up with a work around

Make a Rectangle object to act as the parent.

Add other Rectangle objects as children of parent Rectangle object.

Make a Body object using CreateBoxBody using the width and height of the Rectangles combined.

Use PhysicsConnector to register the parent Rectangle object with the Body object.