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I've been trying to stop my camera from going through walls but I got a strange thing happening. This is what I got so far:

I got an *.x object (a house) and I set its collision to polygons. I got a dummy object and slapped it over the camera (tried boxes, spheres...). Set the colision for the dummy object and wrote a little bit of code to stop it from going through the .x object. Now here's the strange thing:

The collisions are only detected for my floor and ceiling and not the walls. They're both exactly the same object and the code for up/down has the same test parameters and forward and back. I then made the collision values show on the screen and found that it stays 0 when going through the walls but changes when trying to go through the ceiling or the floor. What am I missing here???


I've found some sneeky ways to alter the object to fake a collision but it ain't the real thing. Anyone got a good reason why the horizontal polygons are used in the collisions and the vertical ones aren't?

have you tried using automatic collision? look in the help files for details.

A simple test...try swapping the variables around in the colision code, it sometimes works.

The problem is that the collision is never detesced fo the walls but I managed to do something (regardless of how stupid it sounds).

I made the .x file by first making a 3ds and then converting it to X. For that model the walls worked but the floor and ceiling didn't . So now I broke it up into 2 objects. I make the floor and ceiling object as before directly and I make the walls object via a 3ds. So now it all works. From that I'm guessing the problem is in the model data and not in the code (since I didn't change a thing in the code). Something to do with the normals data.... maybe... well isn't this exciting.

Now it's onto sliding collisions, yay fun.

yeah, something is "up" with the model.