most elegant way to use physics to do 'powerups' without stopping char from collision?

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erebusman

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Posted: 18th Feb 2013 04:42

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Hello,

Working on my most recent game and I have a question..

What is the most elegant way when using the built in physics system to have my character collide with something (a health power up, a coin etc) but *not* have the physics system stop my character from the impact?

Basically I want to use physics to detect the collision and then 'pick up' the item without stopping my character at all. I want them to keep moving as if they had not hit something?

Thoughts?

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MrValentine

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Posted: 18th Feb 2013 06:18 Edited at: 18th Feb 2013 22:27

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DOH!

I must have been tired

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You could try ODE DESTROY OBJECT or use standard intersect sorts of checks...

In DarkPhysics [PhysX] you would use what is called a Trigger, but as far as I can see this does not exist, but there is a message system...

But

[quote] 'pick up' [/quote]

Remove? or attach to another object?

I would suggest look at Sparkys, or get DarkPhysics, or DarkDynamix... but it would depend on your project... DarkPhysics you can get along with the BonanzaBundle deal...

Hope this helps, Also the [href=http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=view_product&id=2162]Hands On DBPro Volume 2[/href] book contains most if not all of the ODE engine functions...