Many collision filters

Physics
#1

I have so many collision masks defined that I’ve run out of values. The documentation states that the highest collision mask value allowed is 32768:

https://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/guide/physics/collisionDetection/index.html#collision-filter-worksheet

I’m wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if there are any creative solutions?

#2

i’d first check to see if any of your masks are redundant.  fe, ages ago i remember a forum post with someone who had like a dozen separate masks for each of his dozen individual “powerups” versus the player, when really he just needed one (plus some separate attribute to distinguish which powerup).

#3

I second what @davebollinger says.

Can you share your collision matrix with us?  We might be able to help you trim it down.  

#4

Yeah, that’s pretty much what I’m going with. I have a separate mask for each object in the system; Just going to par them down now and do some object name checking within the collision listeners. It’s pretty basic and really only based on the fact that I have a lot more object types than I expected when I started.

Was wondering if there were any other solutions which, while more involved, could yield an effect similar to having more filter masks than are available. For example, an inherited/base listener function which can do that extra filtering ahead of receiving the event in my object’s listener.

#5

i’d first check to see if any of your masks are redundant.  fe, ages ago i remember a forum post with someone who had like a dozen separate masks for each of his dozen individual “powerups” versus the player, when really he just needed one (plus some separate attribute to distinguish which powerup).

#6

I second what @davebollinger says.

Can you share your collision matrix with us?  We might be able to help you trim it down.  

#7

Yeah, that’s pretty much what I’m going with. I have a separate mask for each object in the system; Just going to par them down now and do some object name checking within the collision listeners. It’s pretty basic and really only based on the fact that I have a lot more object types than I expected when I started.

Was wondering if there were any other solutions which, while more involved, could yield an effect similar to having more filter masks than are available. For example, an inherited/base listener function which can do that extra filtering ahead of receiving the event in my object’s listener.