Quote:Original post by jyk

Quote:Original post by jolyqr
six objects, maybe, no more. it's not going to be a huge game. it's more like a demo.

In that case, don't worry about broad-phase culling, spatial partitioning, or anything like that. Just write functions to test for the intersection of a ray with the object types you're interested in (e.g. boxes and pyramids), and when you need to raytrace, just trace against every object in the scene.

There are different algorithms for raytracing various objects, but speed won't be an issue here, so I'd just find something that works and go with it. Things to google for would be 'raytrace box', 'ray box intersection', 'ray AABB intersection', 'ray OBB intersection', 'ray triangle intersection', and similar phrases.