Collision with interior of a collision shape.

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Ebon
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Collision with interior of a collision shape.

Post by Ebon »

If I wanted to make something like a fish bowl, a spherical container, could I use the spherical collision object to keep objects inside the bowl?

I haven't seen anything to support this in the documentation, but it seems to me that the algorithms should be fairly similar to those used for "external" collision, or am I missing something?
CookieMonster
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Re: Collision with interior of a collision shape.

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The inside would be concave and can't use convex to convex collision algorithms. It would be easier to just have a btBvhTriangleMeshShape and keep it static.
alex-weej
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Re: Collision with interior of a collision shape.

Post by alex-weej »

If CD is possible between any two given shapes, inverting one of them (swapping 'inside' for 'outside') would just mean that colliding circumstances before become non-colliding and vice versa. Sensible contact generation would probably be a little more involved, though.
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