So, I've been prototyping a game, and I've been using sprite collision, and it's not cutting it any more. I read up on the documentation about masks and overlap area: https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/mask.html#pygame.mask.Mask.overlap_area
How exactly do I use this? The documentation says "This can be used to see in which direction things collide, or to see how much the two masks collide. An approximate collision normal can be found by calculating the gradient of the overlap area through the finite difference."
I don't quite follow this description. How can I tell the direction of the collision? What does the return value actually contain? What does "offest" mean? How would I implement this collision for two Pygame Sprites with images and transparency?
Is there a more in-depth explanation (preferably with sample code) anywhere? I can't find anything more detailed than the documentation.
