What does “my neighbors” actually do?

[cookieclickerer33]

I don’t know what the “my neighbors” function actually does, at first I thought it returned the sprites that are touching the current sprite but that’s not the case. So what does it actually do

[cymplecy]

NEIGHBOR algorithm

Oh geez, so it's me again The neighbors algorithm is dependent on the extent of the sprite that asks for them. I'm currently too lazy to look up the specifics in my code, but the rule is that there's some relationship between the sprite's area to the surrounding box that it scans for neighbors. The neighbors attribute is meant not so much to perform statistics on surrounding populations but to narrow-down potential collision candidates, or to find the nearest one. If you want a c…

[cookieclickerer33]

So basically it returns what sprites have their bounding boxes touching?

I’m not sure about that as I’ve had sprites that are not touching in bounding boxes by over 50 units and they still are neighbors

[cymplecy]

I think its not an exact science

[cookieclickerer33]

There has to be some sort of algorithm to it because it always returns the same thing if no sprites move

[bluebaritone21]

Taken from the Manual:

Neighbors are all other sprites whose bounding boxes intersect the doubled dimensions of the requesting sprite's bounds.