[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 16 ■ Collision Detection: Creating SVG Polygons for the Game Actors and Writing Code to Detect Collision
Figure 16-8. Open sprite1.png, select the Paths Tool, and start to draw a simple Path
As you can see in Figure 16-9, I created the collision polygon using only 15 points. You can leave the polygon
open, and simply add the Z character you learned about in the first section of the book, to create a closed polygon. As
you can see on the right side of Figure 16-9, the polygon conforms closely to the sprite, so during game play the result
of a collision will look like it happened with the pixels of your sprite rather than with the collision polygon, which even
though the collision polygon path data is visible here in GIMP, will be invisible during your game play.
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