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say i model a room in 3d max studio then load the mesh in directx and set the material , how would i go about making the mesh become part of the world , so like if the player or camera move up a hill or in to the wall , how is that detected , i am starting to think you have to some how get all the vertice cordinates around all the mesh?
Say again?
Are we talking about collision detection?
To make it part of the world you translate it to it's world coordinates. To do collision detection you can use bounding volumes followed by more expensive per triangle tests.
Aka, get a book on 3d game programming in your preferred language and API.
To make it part of the world you translate it to it's world coordinates. To do collision detection you can use bounding volumes followed by more expensive per triangle tests.
care to say which functions i would need?
There are no collision detection functions, you need to compute it yourself.
You should type "collision detection algorithms" or something similar into the google search bar.
i am looking at a function D3DXMeshIntersect , ive looked at some sample code and ran the exe to the sample code , it has 2 mesh's loaded , when you press w it moves forward , now if i walk in to the wall or over a small chunk in the floor it like goes over it and not through it or stops when you come to any 4 sides of the walls , these are the sort of things i mean , i can upload the sample code and exe if you want
Yes you can use the D3DX library for collision detection but those are expensive tests. You need to use some type of spatial partioning system to ensure your game does not become a really fancy slide show.
but those are expensive tests.
what do you mean by this
Expensive in computer terms usually means "takes many clockcycles". In this case, if you have lots of objects to collision detect, you'll need to have a way to separate the ones that are likely to have collisions and the ones that aren't likely to collide, so that you don't have to collision detect all of them. As for how you do that, I don't have a clue (I have some idea about collision detection and 3D graphics, but not enough to know the answer to this).Quote:
Originally Posted by Anddos
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Searching google for "Broad Phase Culling" is a good start if you want to find out different strategies for ordering objects for fast collision rejection. Among common options are oc(t)trees, BSPs and various space hashes but there are many ways to do it mostly depending on exactly what kind of objects and what kind of queries you want to do.
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which book is good to learn about collisions or picking
i dont know if its my compiler or what but i cant seem to load a basic mesh
D3DXCreateTeapot(D3DDevice , &m_pMesh, NULL);
this is in the render function
m_pMesh->DrawSubset(0);
and its crashing when i try and DrawSubset with a loaded mesh from file , something is wrong and i think its the compiler
It is probably not the compiler but the compilee.
Post your code.
And on a side note we cannot go through every step here in one post to get you up to speed on DirectX/Direct3D and 3D math/algorithms. Buy a book.
Course not. Never think that the compiler is wrong. It's the programmer, always the programmer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anddos
I recommend using a physics API, it'll do all the nasty stuff for you.
Please don't bump old threads.