colliding with paddle

[dmoeller]

I am making a breakout game. When I set my code to have the ball collide with the paddle, it always bounces off where the paddle is vertically, all across the screen. It only looks at the y value, not the x value but I have tried nested if for the x value and a & for the x value in my if statement. Here is my code so far.

                //if the ball collides with the paddle
                if ((ball.getY()+ball.getRad()) > paddle.getY())
                {
                        if ((ball.getX()-ball.getRad()) > paddle.getX())
                        {
                                let vert = false;
                        }
                }
                return;

Please let me know what I am doing wrong. Thank you.


P.S. vert=false means the ball goes up

[cadet1620]

The inner if is the problem.  It is only testing for one side of the paddle.

You want to test if the ball is left of the right end of the paddle and is right of the left end of the paddle.

--Mark