Justin Eslinger
Collision : Smooth surface sliding (Quake series)
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Hi,
I''ve finaly added collision detection to my game, but one thing makes me mad about it. You get caught on the walls. How do games like Quake and UT make you slide across the walls without catching?
Did I just speak in a riddle? heehehe Please tell me if you don''t understand and I''ll try to simplify a bit better. I''m not good at describing what I want
Justin Eslinger
Justin Eslinger
I found out how to do this on accident. All you have to do is multiply the triangle normal by the min. distance from the plane. After the collision occurs.
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what''s the min. distance from the plane? what is that?
what do you to the velocity or direction vector after the collision occurs,( to slide against the wall )?
what do you to the velocity or direction vector after the collision occurs,( to slide against the wall )?
quote:Original post by nes8bit
I found out how to do this on accident. All you have to do is multiply the triangle normal by the min. distance from the plane. After the collision occurs.
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on flipcode there''s a doc in the Development Tutorials sections called collision detection using bounding ellipoids (or something similar). read it, as it describes in great detail how to "slide" along a surface. allthough it''s for bounding elipsoids (3D ovals), the techniques still apply. go read
CJ
CJ
To make you slide along the wall all you do is zero the velocity perpendicular to the wall and leave the velocity parallel to the wall as it is. The min. distance from the plane is the minimum distance from the wall, i.e. the closest you can get to the wall.
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what''s the min. distance from the plane? what is that?
what do you to the velocity or direction vector after the collision occurs,( to slide against the wall )?
you do exactally what I say to change the velocity/direction. Actually you don''t change the velocity or direction. All you do is change the position to create the illusion of sliding. Also the "min. distance" is basically how far the player must be at all times from the wall. Without this, you will collide exactally at the plane''s point.
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nes is right. Basically what you are doing is finding the amount that you would have moved parallel to the wall had you kept walking, and taking away any motion normal to the wall. Kind of like breaking down a vector into its x, y values and just moving it in the x direction. Hopefully this clears it up a little.
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I'm pretty glad that I don't sound crazy. It's also very hard to explain without drawing a picture. I'm way too lazy to draw one right now. 
If you want me to give you an example, just ask. It's gonna require YOU to write some code though. (I do pseudo code 
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I don't know why, but I have a feeling you're in San Diego -BacksideSnap-
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Edited by - nes8bit on June 15, 2000 5:01:16 PM
If you want me to give you an example, just ask. It's gonna require YOU to write some code though. (I do pseudo code )I don't know why, but I have a feeling you're in San Diego -BacksideSnap-
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Edited by - nes8bit on June 15, 2000 5:01:16 PM
There''s a couple of ways of handling ''sliding'', but here''s the way I do it:
I assume that you have acceleration values for your player, i.e. I call them ax, ay, az. To see if you can move along a wall, just check each component individually.
So, you might have something like this:
x = player_x_coordinate;
y = player_y_coordinate;
z = player_z_coordinate;
ax = requested_acceleration; (or whatever, you get it)
ay = ...
az = ...
// Check each thing separately...
if (Collision(x + ax, y, z))
ax = 0;
if (Collision(x, y + ay, z))
ay = 0;
if (Collision(x, y, z + az))
az = 0;
x += ax;
y += ay;
z += az;
Ok? That''s the way I''ve been doing it in the last 5 years or so. See an example with "Tank Arena 3D" at
www.smidge-tech.co.uk/prog-windows.html
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I assume that you have acceleration values for your player, i.e. I call them ax, ay, az. To see if you can move along a wall, just check each component individually.
So, you might have something like this:
x = player_x_coordinate;
y = player_y_coordinate;
z = player_z_coordinate;
ax = requested_acceleration; (or whatever, you get it)
ay = ...
az = ...
// Check each thing separately...
if (Collision(x + ax, y, z))
ax = 0;
if (Collision(x, y + ay, z))
ay = 0;
if (Collision(x, y, z + az))
az = 0;
x += ax;
y += ay;
z += az;
Ok? That''s the way I''ve been doing it in the last 5 years or so. See an example with "Tank Arena 3D" at
www.smidge-tech.co.uk/prog-windows.html
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