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From: Tenchi <tenchi@netmagic.net>
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Subject: Re: Collision Detection
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 00:30:13 -0700
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There's no standard way of doing it but I'd suggest creating a
bounding box around your 3D object.  You should know the extent
of the object in all 3 dimensions, so you just define 8 vertices
that create the box/cube around it.  Then you just test for
intersections with other objects.

You could also test each vertice in your object, but that would
take forever.  This discussion came up before and the bounding
box (or even a bounding cylinder) was sufficient.

- e!

Richard Cutting wrote:
> 
> Is there a 'standard' way of doing collision detection between
> polygons on the Yaroze ?  I know how to do it if I can get hold of the
> co-ordinates of all the vertices on the polygons .. but how do I do
> this ?  I guess it's through the TMD structure somehow but it's not
> exactly well documented......

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- e!
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