KinemeticCollisions and KinemeticBody should be able to detect areas as well as bodies

[elvisish]

I've had to implement area detection as physics space checks, but since I also need move_and_collide for collisions, it feels superfluous when KinemeticBody could just detect areas and return the results in its KinemeticCollision data. Is there a particular reason it can't be enabled or implemented as it can with direct space physics?

[godotproposer]

Personally, I wouldn't be interested in detecting areas while using move_and_collide to handle physical movement. I think it would be messy, and hurt my project's performance where it isn't needed. Are signals unsuitable for your use case? How about adding an area to your KinematicBody scene, so that it can detect other areas as needed? I think those are the intended solutions to this type of problem.

[elvisish]

Personally, I wouldn't be interested in detecting areas while using move_and_collide to handle physical movement. I think it would be messy, and hurt my project's performance where it isn't needed. Are signals unsuitable for your use case? How about adding an area to your KinematicBody scene, so that it can detect other areas as needed? I think those are the intended solutions to this type of problem.

I realised that it would interfere with the detection of bodies as the area would be found and if there was also a body it would probably ignore the body. I wanted to discuss this to determine any downsides and I now know there would be.

[godotproposer]

Yeah, and overlapping multiple areas at once is expected behavior, too. Seems like the collision results would have to be returned in an array at that point