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Dark GDK / Collision Issues and Sparky's

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scd
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Posted: 13th Nov 2010 06:34
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I'm more into problem solving than creating full games, so because of that I'm trying to implement a collision system with sliding collision etc on my own (without a plug-in).

Sliding collision is going well so now I am trying to allow the player to stand on top of objects. I seem to have run into a problem with GDK's collision.

Using this code to debug the collision:



The sphere is set to sphere collision.
This with the box set to polygon collision:



This is with the box set to box collision:



Am I missing something or is the only way to get reliable collision with a plug-in?

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Sam
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scd
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Posted: 20th Nov 2010 23:17
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Sorry I know asking about collision is a noob question and the post was long but I really just need an answer to a simple question:

How accurate is the built-in collision in GDK?

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Sam
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Matty H
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Posted: 21st Nov 2010 13:58 Edited at: 21st Nov 2010 13:59
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Quote: "implement a collision system with sliding collision etc on my own (without a plug-in)."


It seems you are not implementing your own collision system, you are using the dark basic collision system. Don't be afraid to use plugins, Sparkys collision is just a set of commands that work better than the in-built ones. I dont think Sparkys does the sliding collision for you, so you will still need to implement it if thats what you want to do.

fulcrum physics - free collision/physics plug-in for DarkGDK
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scd
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2010 09:05
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Cheers Matty I understand what you are saying - it would be stupid to handicap myself by not using the help out there. I have decided to adapt my code to Sparky's.

But is dark basic's collision really that broken?
Like so broken that it gives blatantly wrong collision results?
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Hawkblood
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I find it better when doing any collision using pure DB, just use the ray-collision stuff. You have to do several checks to get an accurate system, but it works fine. I use Sparky's and I like it.

The fastest code is the code never written.
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