The Holy Grail of Flash

As any of you who have messed with Actionscript know, smooth collision detection is the Holy Grail of flash game developers.

Suprisingly enough, Flash only has bounding box collision detection, and no built-in smooth collision detection. Now, there are plugins or something that you can buy (I've only found 1 though), but they cost money.

It wouldn't have been very hard for the Flash Developers to code in advanced collision detection, but they didn't. So I did. Smooth, complex-polygon collision detection. It is pure awesomeness, and way better than the default hitTest() which uses bounding boxes only. I wrote this in just under 2 days, and I'll post the actionscript files if you want me to. This code can be used in any language (allowing for syntax changes) like C++, for game development and complex-polygon collision detection.

Its fricken sweet. If you don't think it's fricken sweet, go make your own smooth collision detection in 2 days. From scratch. Remember, Flash doesn't even have built-in line-segment intersection code.

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And I invoke [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law]Godwin's Law

<p align=center>*cough*Hitler*cough*<br><br>*cough*Watermelons*cough*</p>