Polygon: collision, line segment

Hi,

I am writing a game and would like to check whether there is a collision between my player and a given object.

I am painting an object using GeneralPath; the player is being displayed using Ellipse2D:

publicclass Shapes{

private GeneralPath path =new GeneralPath();

public Shape drawBird(){

path.moveTo(50, 50);

path.lineTo(70, 44);

path.curveTo(100, 10, 140, 80, 160, 80);

path.lineTo(190, 40);

path.lineTo(200, 56);

path.quadTo(100, 150, 70, 60);

path.closePath();

return path;

}

(...)

}

I am storing the coordinates of the player in an ArrayList:

private List <Point2D>playerAllCoordinatesList =new ArrayList<Point2D>();

private Point2D playerCurrentPosition, playerLastPosition;

I am connecting the positions of the player with a Line2D. These lines should not intersect with the GeneralPath object.

I have already written a collision detection method. Now I am thinking about using polygons instead using java.awt.Polygon: is it possible that I declare my GeneralPath object as a polygon as well as the movements by the player (ArrayList -> Polygon?)? Is it possible that the line segment between the first and last player position is not being included in the collision detection?

Thanks a lot!

[1765 byte] By [SFLa] at [2007-11-26 23:50:30]