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Nathan38
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Posted: 8th Jul 2017 18:19
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Hi all,
I was wondering if there was a command that will return a sprite boundaries?

Currently I am manually working out the left x, right x, top y and bottom y boundaries of a sprite, and as you can imagine, if there are lots of sprites at once, it can get incredibly tedious. Just wondering if anyone knows an easier way of finding out this information?

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Posted: 8th Jul 2017 19:57
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Not sure what you mean as the sprite goes wherever you tell it to go.

For example if you size a sprite as 10 and place it at 40,40 then the top and right boundary will be 50.

Of course if you don't specify a size then the boundaries will change depending on the screen dimensions.
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Posted: 8th Jul 2017 20:10
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there's no way by default but as amen said it's % based so if you assign a size when you start then you can store it in an array and use it later from that.
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Posted: 9th Jul 2017 06:13 Edited at: 9th Jul 2017 17:10
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was going to say since its all relative by % of the screen there isn't any way from what I know, of how to reference anything by pixels in this manner. I could be wrong.
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You can return the current screen resolution though so as long as you know the % size set for each sprite you can work out how many pixels it is - though there isn't really any point if you just work in %.

If I'm unsure how big I want everything to be I'll just put it into paint program and set the canvas to my ideal resolution, then work out the % of the canvas each sprite should be from there.
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