I've been working on a random concept idea of having 6 clouds appear on a page with random comments pulled from a database. That part is easy, however I'm finding it extremely difficult to make sure the 6 clouds don't overlap each other. I've looked into Collision Detection a lot and found that there's no real suitable method of checking for a DIV within a range at X or Y before placing the new "randomly positioned" div on the page. I have my code below which I know is extremely messy right now. I currently have it checking the last DIV with reasonable success but if DIV 1 and DIV 3 for example, have similar X Y positions then It's a problem. Sorry If I'm making no sense.. here's my code and a jsFiddle
$(document).ready(function () {
var counter = 0;
//var colide = {};
var px = 0;
var py = 0;
var clouds = new Array("cloud1", "cloud2", "cloud3", "cloud4", "cloud5", "cloud6");
var cloudtext = new Array("This is text for cloud 1 :D", "This is text for cloud 2 :D", "This is text for cloud 3 :D", "This is text for cloud 4 :D", "This is text for cloud 5 :D", "This is text for cloud 6 :D");
function makeDiv() {
if (counter < 6) {
counter++;
//var divsize = ((Math.random() * 100) + 50).toFixed();
//var color = '#' + Math.round(0xffffff * Math.random()).toString(16);
$newdiv = $('<div class="' + clouds[counter - 1] + '">' + cloudtext[counter - 1] + '<div/>').css({
'width': '354px',
'height': '202px'
//'width': divsize + 'px',
//'height': divsize + 'px',
//'background-color': color,
});
var posx = (Math.random() * ($(document).width() - 354)).toFixed();
var posy = (Math.random() * ($(document).height() - 202)).toFixed();
while (posy < 180) {
posy = (Math.random() * ($(document).height() - 202)).toFixed();
}
if ((px > posx + 354) || (px < posx - 354)) {
if ((py > posy + 202) || (py < posy - 202)) {
//alert(px + ' - ' + posx + ' px(temp) - posx(newdiv) - good to go!');
py = posy;
px = posx;
$newdiv.css({
'position': 'absolute',
'left': posx + 'px',
'top': posy + 'px',
'display': 'none',
'background-image': 'url(http://www.demixgaming.co.uk/cloud/images/Cloud.png)',
'text-align': 'center',
'line-height': '202px',
'color': '#000'
}).appendTo('body').fadeIn(150).delay(300, function () {
makeDiv();
});
} else {
counter--;
px = posx;
py = posy;
makeDiv();
}
} else {
counter--;
px = posx;
py = posy;
makeDiv();
};
}
}
makeDiv();
});
JS Fiddle - Link to JSFiddle