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From: george_bain@playstation.sony.com (George Bain)
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Subject: Re: Collision detection with rotating sprites
Date: 3 Dec 1998 16:38:33 GMT
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Hi Miles,

Yes, it is hard to use spheres when using rectangular obejcts. 
I had an example demonstrating that in some cases a bounding sphere
will fail(rectangles) in the NY tutorial.  I would therefore
split the rectangle into sizes similiar to the colliding object.


George@SCEE



In article <01be1e90$e7e94160$0a3ddec2@guildfoc>, miles@guildfrd.demon.co.uk 
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>The reason I have to do this is that the sprite in question is a rectangle
>at least twice as long as it is wide - so I use two bounding boxes/spheres.
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