Heyo, sorry if this is a redundant noob question, but I couldn’t find anything on the forums for non-tile based maps.
I’m attempting (my first time) to build just a simple RPG style game where I can walk around and interact with the map. I’ve got movement down, and I can work basic hitTests but here is my problem…
Is there a way I can have my character not walk through furniture, walls, etc without having it made in tiles?
My original idea was to just draw an object that covered all the areas I didn’t want him to walk through and have it hitTest against that. But when it hits it and movement is disallowed, it wont let him walk the opposite way because he is still touching it on one side. So I figured I need to have it hit test against different sides/corners and I gathered up all the coordinates for top left, bottom left, etc corners of my guy, but how do I test that against my object? To my knowledge the function hitTest only works with movieclips, so how do I test if a coordinate is touching a movie clip?
If my “barrier” object is long or wide or some crazy shape I can’t possibly get the coordinates for every point to test that, so im stuck.
Man im confused…it’s late and I’m tired. 
Thanks for anything you can offer!