Re: Collision detection Re: Is this list still alive?

[Chris Purnell <cjp@oit.net>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:39:27PM +0200, Jan Ekholm wrote:

> One way *could* be to use bounding spheres around your objects, and check
> wether the sphere is within a distance less than its radius from some
> other object. Should work for a quite fast approximation. When you have a
> collision (or possible collision) use some more finegrained checks, such
> as separate bounding spheres for various parts of the objects involved.
> For walls, floors etc the use of bounding spheres is not ideal, for those
> cases you could try to get the equation for the plane surface and
> calculate the distance between the plane and the bounding spheres.

I intend to use a bounding cylinder.  It needs to be raised slightly above
the ground to allow for uneven and sloping floors.  Now I just need to work
out how to do the cylinder/triangle intersection test.

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