The Collision Manager

[Maize]

A lot of people ask how to detect collisions with many objects using Irrlicht functions. A lot of those posts dont get exact answers though. Hopefully with this project, no one will ask how anymore. I have written a collision manager class which is an easy, light, and fast way to add collision handling to your project. The zip file includes the files and a sample test bed for it. If you have any problems with it, post them and I will try to help you out. The sample was written in Visual C++6 so you will need the appropriate irrlicht dll to compile and run it which wasnt included because of the filesize. In conclusion, there should be no reason for anyone to ask how to do collision with irrlicht anymore.

http://s-fonline.com/webhosting/frobaz/ ... anager.zip

The sample also wont run on linux since I use GetAsyncKeyState for input. This can easily be changed though.

[sudi]

I might be wrong but dont they want 'collision detection' like a call back that they know that something collides? to check for exampel if a bullet hit something? cause this thing is like just the basic collision manager of irrlicht. and it doesnt have a value to return.
sudi

[Maize]

Well a lot of people asked how to do that so there ya go. I never really said you HAD to use it.

[omaremad_]

@sudi you can use the ray to bounding box collision test for bullets assumeing bullets are very fast


some times it doesnt work well on deled maps so i had to rely on the get position from 2d screen coordinate

[codebox]

thanks but i dont have visual c++.

i downloaded the collision manager files and i tried importing the visual c++ project into Dev c++. It imported successfully. I tweaked to meet the linker requirements and paths, yet i get the following errors

-C:\CollisionManager\Collision Manager\Sample\Main.cpp In function `void InitGame()':

-39 C:\CollisionManager\Collision Manager\Sample\Main.cpp no matching function for call to `CObject::LoadObject( CGraphics*&, const char[13], const char[5], irr::core::vector3df,

- error C:\CollisionManager\Collision Manager\Sample\Game.h:36 candidates are: int CObject::LoadObject(CGraphics*, c8*, c8*, irr::core::vector3df&, irr::core::vector3df&, irr::core::vector3df&)

-43 C:\CollisionManager\Collision Manager\Sample\Main.cpp no matching function for call to `CCollision::AttachToNode( irr::scene::ISceneManager*&, irr::scene::ICameraSceneNode*&,

- error C:\CollisionManager\Collision Manager\Sample\Collision.h:27 candidates are: void CCollision::AttachToNode(irr::scene::ISceneManager*,

- C:\CollisionManager\Collision Manager\Sample\Makefile.win [Build Error] [Main.o] Error 1

any help is appreciated thanks.