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Oliver
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Posted: 15th Oct 2004 16:50 Edited at: 15th Oct 2004 18:40
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For the command SET OBJECT COLLISION TO BOXES, the help file says:

"An invisible collision box will be used for every limb in the object."

Is this true? I would like to load one object with limbs, and have a collision box around each limb. It appears that it doesn't work though.

Has anyone successfully got this to work?

Thanks in advance

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Heres some more information, when i use SHOW OBJECT BOUNDS it draws boxes around the limbs of the object correctly. When I count the number of limbs with PERFORM CHECKLIST FOR OBJECT LIMBS it counts them correctly. I have collision working for individual boxes but it doesn't work with one object + limbs.

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I've attached the project files, could someone have a look at it, thanks.

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BatVink
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Posted: 15th Oct 2004 23:07
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It worked for me back in the Alienware compo. However, inbuilt collision really is pants.

I now use Nuclear Glory collision (http://www.nuclearglory.com), and it's highly recommended.

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OldTifu
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Posted: 16th Oct 2004 03:28
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For an object with limbs, woudln't you be better with polygonal collision rather than box? I would have thought box collision would just set up one huge box around the whole object (limbs included) rather than several boxes for each limb (unless I mistaken)
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Oliver
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Posted: 16th Oct 2004 18:01 Edited at: 16th Oct 2004 21:18
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Yup it does seem to make only one box around the whole object, i've had another idea as to how to work around it though. And I prefer to code my own collision, it gives you more control over it or else I would use NG. Anyway, thank you.

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Next question, is there any way to return the size of a limb just like the command OBJECT SIZE X() but for limbs?

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I don't believe so. What you could do instead is to create a new object from the limb (MAKE OBJECT FROM LIMB) and then get the size of that object.

Don't delete that temp object though, just hide it and move it outside of you game world. Deleting objects can give quite a performance hit.

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