A glitch corrected, DirectDraw, Part 11

In part 8 of this series of posts on DirectDraw, I had mentioned that there still seems to be a minor problem with the program. Read the "Note" section at the end of the post. The problem now has been solved.

Recap

The problem was that even after calculating the new positions for the marbles, the marbles would still be overlapping because of the approximations that we use. And this would sometimes repeat many times over which creates the problem.

Solution

The fix that I’d said in the "Note" section works well. After calculating the new position for the marbles you check again if they collide. And if they do then adjust their positions so that they don’t overlap anymore. Every time I move the marbles 2 pixels away from each other and check the distance again. And repeat this until they are no more overlapping. Here is the code:

MinDistance = ball1->radius + ball2->radius;

    dxx = ball1->xPos – ball2->xPos;

    dyy = ball1->yPos – ball2->yPos;

    //calculate new distance between marbles

    distance = sqrt(dxx*dxx + dyy*dyy);

    printf("COLLISION: New Distance:%d \r\n", (int)distance);

    //this part makes sure that the new positions of the marbles are not overlapping

    //sometimes the new position itself overlaps and that leads to weird behaviour

    //check if the marbles are overlapping

    if ((int)distance <= MinDistance)

    {

       //adjust their positions

       do

       {

           if (ball1->xPos > ball2->xPos)

           {

               ball1->xPos += 1;

               ball2->xPos -= 1;

           }

           else

           {

               ball1->xPos -= 1;

               ball2->xPos += 1;

           }

           if (ball1->yPos > ball2->yPos)

           {

               ball1->yPos += 1;

               ball2->yPos -= 1;

           }

           else

           {

               ball1->yPos -= 1;

               ball2->yPos += 1;

           }

           dxx = ball1->xPos – ball2->xPos;

           dyy = ball1->yPos – ball2->yPos;

           distance = sqrt(dxx*dxx + dyy*dyy);

       }while((int)distance <= MinDistance);

    }

So the same set of values for xPos and yPos which used to create the problem before, now work fine.

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