Physics2D Overlap Circle not working with Edge Collider 2D

Hi all,

I've currently got my game set up with edge colliders for obstacles in the level geometry. I then have my character object check where it's about to move with Physics2D.OverlapCircle so that it won't move into any collisions. However, it only recognizes the collision if I collide with the left-most line of the edge-collider, and I'm not sure what's causing this.

Thanks

 

Yap, got the same bug in the beta with polygon colliders :/

 

I'm experiencing the same bug, and it hasn't been fixed yet. Any plans to do so?

 

Have you filed a bug report?

 

Don't really want to complain, but they usually take a lot of time to answer those.

 

Bug report sent. Hope to receive an answer. Will share if I do.

 

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No response yet

 

Have you received a response yet? I'm stuck on this same issue.

 

Sorry, not such luck :/

Will fill another bug report

 

Just to be clearer about my issue:

I'm doing a platformer game prototype, by using Playmaker and TK2D.

TK2D uses EdgeColliders for its tile maps. I run a script to detect whether my character is touching the ground or not, and
changing his state on Playmaker accordingly. Obviously, it doesn't work.

However, if my character falls on top of a platform with a BoxCollider attached to it, the landing event fires up.
I know there are alternatives, like using raycasting. But I think it's unncecesary, this should be working, as that method is used in examples and in their live training sessions.

 

There's really nothing wrong with using Raycasting though, it's even what was used in the original Sonic games on the Genesis. It's a pretty classic technique that doesn't take much compute power at all, plus it allows for your character to begin moving to it's grounded animations on the frame it's actually about to hit, instead of hitting and then changing.

 

Hi to all, just wanna say I bumped into the same issue...
have you found some solution?
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Excellent news!

 

Thanks for the reply, that's a good new.

From the little i presume to have understood, using edge collider with circle overlap is quite more expensive than on other 'linear' colliders. Does this iteration on the edges may become heavy for a recurring check on multiple edges? like that for jumping on a broken ground may be? (I'm referring to last unity 2d tutorial and its 'jumping technique')
Does, for example, raycast could be a better solution?

thanks in advance

 

thank you very much I'll profile these two options

 

Any news on this issue? it seems to be still present and I recently updated Unity.

 

I know this comes with the dangers of using 3rd party tools, hopefully it gets submitted soon. In the meantime I would really appreciate if you or anybody could point me to a work around? I know some people mentioned ray casting but I am unsure on how to make that work for this case specifically.

Thanks again.

 

Doh....also awaiting this fix. I'm working on a 2d platformer and am turning on and off collision layers for jump-through platforms. I need to be sure a player isn't inside a platform before turning the collision layer back on else they get stuck. The player is using a circle collider so I thought I'd use Physics2D.OverlapCircle to check if the player is in the middle of a platform before turning on the layer collision again. It was acting weird. Found this thread. Thanks. I guess I will just try raycast. Or maybe try a box collider.

Edit: I need to read the thread better, OverlapArea is also affected.

 

Just do a raycast from the top of your 2D collider bounds to the bottom, on both sides, and if either are true, keep the layer collision turned off.

 

Yeah that's exactly what I ended up doing. Seems to work fine, finally. This is like my 5th or 6th attempt at this, each way I tried I hit a wall or missing feature but finally raycasting seems to work.

 

Any news on ETA for the fix? Do I have to wait for the next major release or is it included in a minor updates?

 

Physics2D.OverlapCircle not working on PolygonCollider2D ?

 

It's not working for me. how did you fix it ???