Can I set different things to happen depending on how much two objects colide?

[Filip Spasic]

So I have two clouds, one player cloud and one enemy cloud. What I want is, if I hit the enemy cloud, I die, but if I only scratch the enemy cloud with my player cloud, I charge with electricity. Is there a way to have these different conditions happen based on how much the collision boxes overlap? Im open to any idea on how to make it

 

[samspade]

Lots of ways probably. My suggestion would be this. Do check for a collision with the cloud directly. Have the player cloud spawn two hit boxes, one smaller than the other, and check for collisions with those.

If the cloud is a circle (or oval) you can do your own collision checking, but if it is an oval then that will take probably learning a little bit of math

 

[Bentley]

You could measure the distance when they collide:

var dist = point_distance(x, y, x2, y2);
if (dist > scratch_dist) // die
else charge_meh

Something like that mb.