ActionScript 3.0 :: Find Highest Point Of A Group Of Boxes?
Mar 31, 2009
I have a number of boxes on screen - each box is a rectangular movieclip, and they fall to the bottom of the screen where they pile up to make a stack of boxes. I'm using box2d for the physics. Oh, and each box may be rotated. I need to find the highest point - ie the smallest y value, of the stack of boxes.
Obviously I can find the position of the highest box's registration point easily (which is the centre of each box) - but that may not be the highest point of the pile of boxes. The highest point may not even be the highest box - it could be a lower box that is rotated on end, for example.
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