Question

With reference to this programming game I am currently building.

Thanks to the answers from this post, I am now able to find the x-y coordinates of all the points of the rectangles (even when rotated), and Collision-Detection with Walls is almost working perfectly now.

Now I need to implement collision detection with the bots themselves (cause obviously, there will be more than one bot in the Arena).

Square-Square Collision Detection (Non-rotated) is not valid in this case because the bots will be turned at an angle (just like I described here).

So what is the best way to implement this form of Rotated Rectangles Collision Detection in WPF?

I guess there must be some math involved, but usually it turns out that there are functions in WPF that ‘calculate’ these maths for you (just like in this case)

Answer 1

Solution

By using the method I posted as a solution to this previous question and a WPF method called IntersectsWith (from Rect), I was able to solve this issue of rotated rectangles collision detection like so:

public Rect GetBounds(FrameworkElement of, FrameworkElement from) {         // Might throw an exception if of and from are not in the same visual tree         GeneralTransform transform = of.TransformToVisual(from);          return transform.TransformBounds(new Rect(0, 0, of.ActualWidth, of.ActualHeight)); }  Vehicle IsBotCollided(IEnumerable<Vehicle> blist) {     //currentBounds is of type Rect, which contains the 4 points of the rectangle (even when rotated)     var currentBounds = GetBounds(BotBody, BattleArena);      //Then I check if the current bounds intersect with each of the other Bots` bounds that are also in the Arena     foreach (Vehicle vehicle in blist)     {         if(GetBounds(vehicle.BotBody, BattleArena).IntersectsWith(currentBounds))         {             return vehicle;         }     }     return null; }