John Wright wrote:
> What I believe most of us are doing in order to have accurate collision
> detection is to use picking to detect collisions. For instance in our
> application the avatar sends out a pickray in the direction it is
> walking *before* it moves to make sure it's a valid move.
This is even more generalised to do terrain following etc too. I've seen
a couple of J3D projects do this on a small scale and it seems to work
quite well.
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Justin Couch Author, Java Hacker
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