Any easy way to check for collision?

[Ion Dune]

I'm working on a jumping animation, and I need it only be possible when the player is standing on something. I'm using the CollisionDetectionAnimator, but gravity is set to 0 and is done otherwise, so isFalling() will not work. Besides that, is there any way to see if my character and his ellipsoid are colliding with my metaselector?

[dudMaN]

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   // Irrlicht collision [FOR MAP] 
   selector = smgr->createOctTreeTriangleSelector(map->getMesh()->getMesh(0), map, 128);
   map->setTriangleSelector(selector); // set the map's collision tri grabber
   selector->drop(); // drop it as we wont need it anymore

   // Irrlicht collision [FOR P1]
   ISceneNodeAnimator* anim = 
    smgr->createCollisionResponseAnimator(selector, p1->getNode(), core::vector3df(30,2,30),
      core::vector3df(0,-4,0),
      core::vector3df(0,0,0));
   p1->getNode()->addAnimator(anim); // add the gravity/collision response animator
   anim->drop(); // we dont need the animator anymore

works fine for me.

for jumping, just set a timer after they jump for the first time, and they cant jump until that expires. used it for my mario game, works good for me

-dudMan

[Ion Dune]

No, I'm sorry, I think you misunderstood. I have working collision, I don't have any problem there. What I need is a way to return a value or something based on collision, so I can use it in "if" statements.

I can't use a timer because then the player would still be able to jump in the air.

Thanks for you help either way though!

[humbrol]

I do not have a map loaded, trying to do a space enviroment with meshes and nodes loaded, is there a way to do collision detection between a cameranode and a sphere node or a loaded mesh?

[wildrj]

id think the simplest way to do collision is to check the coordinates and make sure it isn't close to the coordinates of the *barrier* or on it.

[dudMaN]

Part of my tutorial is on "if statement" collision detection:

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... p?p=136776 - Look at chapter 5

-dudMan

[christianclavet]

Have you checked the SDK manual for this class:
ISceneCollisionManager?

There is a subfunction that's named:
getCollisionPoint();
getCollisionResultPosition();

Never tried them, but should be a good place to look...

[humbrol]

awesome worked great. =)

now is there a way to make the node impassable? or stop the camera from moving through it?

[ertae]

sorry im new using irrlicht why i have these errors

1>c:\users\ertae\desktop\pixel\test2\test2\test2.cpp(195) : error C2065: 'p1' : undeclared identifier
1>c:\users\ertae\desktop\pixel\test2\test2\test2.cpp(195) : error C2227: left of '->getNode' must point to class/struct/union/generic type
1> type is ''unknown-type''
1>c:\users\ertae\desktop\pixel\test2\test2\test2.cpp(198) : error C2227: left of '->getNode' must point to class/struct/union/generic type
1> type is ''unknown-type''
1>c:\users\ertae\desktop\pixel\test2\test2\test2.cpp(198) : error C2227: left of '->addAnimator' must point to class/struct/union/generic type

[Saturn]

Err, probably not only new to Irrlicht, but programming in general.

This snippet is nothing you can just copy/paste in your project and expect to work. You need to change it according to your needs. In this case you need to exchange placeholder p1 with an instance of whatever is your GO type.
And you need to actually *understand* what it does!

[JP]

define p1, presumably this is a player class, all you'd have to do is swap in your character's node instead of p1->getNode()

[Acki]

This snippet is nothing you can just copy/paste in your project and expect to work.

right, this depends on all codes, especially for the tutorials !!!
don't try to only get them to work, but also try to learn what they do (how something is done) !!!
only copy/paste and get them to work doesn't get you further and is not the intention of them !!!

[dudMaN]

EDIT: Sorry, didnt read the entire thread.

Read my 2nd post over, in there is a perfectly working collision function

[ertae]

i see my error thanks