On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Drew Smathers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Casey Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you have a bunch of things and one or more actions to perform on > them, > > > you should put all of them into a collection object with methods that do > > > what you want to the collection. So rather than have each object test > > > collision with every other (a simple, but rather inefficient > algorithm), you > > > would ask the "collision space" object containing all of the objects, > which > > > objects collide. If objects collide, then the collision space could > call a > > > method on each colliding object saying what it collided with. Or the > > > collision space itself could handle the collisions, though I prefer the > > > former method since you let each object decide it's behavior. For > example, a > > > missile object might hit another object. When the missile's > "collide(self, > > > other)" method is called, it would explode and call the damage() method > on > > > the other object (or something like that). > > > > > > This encapsulates your collision handling (or whatever you do at the > > > collection level) in one place so that the node object just need to know > > > what to do when they collide, not how to figure out who they collide > with. > > > It also gives you an easier way to plug in a more efficient algorithm > or a > > > different implementation altogether (e.g, using ode) > > > > Ooo, I like that idea! But what's "ode"? > > > > ~ Nathan > > > > http://www.ode.org/ >
Oh, wow. That may be worth looking into. ~ Nathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
