Quake 3 BSP [Dealing with Collision - Collision Reaction]
Author: bkenwright@xbdev.net
You can't just stop when you hit a wall. And if you've ever played a
game like halo or quake, you'll actually notice that you slide along the wall.
Which is what we are aiming for here. We can do this by taking the wall
normal (direction its facing), point of collision and our original direction to
give the new sliding direction along the wall. We also take into account
the angle and speed that we slide into the wall so our new direction is
proportional to our original speed.
When you have a collision and generate a new direction and position, we also
need to check this new position again in our collision detection. You
could recursively check this new position to get the best new position, but we
just check once, and if our new collision response value is no good, then we'll
just no move to it and the play can wiggle around and face a new direction,
where we can try again.
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Sliding along wall (Perpendicular)
For this demo, I actually show the collision response using rays and
little spheres. So its easier to visualise and play with the code to
see what's going on. In the next demo we'll use our collision response
value to actually slide the player along the wall and prevent them leaving
the level.
Small detail you'll notice, and the reason we always have to check our
new collision response value against a second collision. Is that our
wall normal isn't always the one we want or expect. |
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The previous demo shows how we deal with collisions, by showing the point of
collision and the new position value. It doesn't actually interfere with
our current position and its new position. Thats where the next part comes
in. We now use the above information to create the working demo you can't escape
from!
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Can't escape from the level
Its not enough to actually be on the wall and slide along it. We
needed to expand the code so that it stays a certain radius from the wall.
Radius-Line Collision detection is used.
So the actual player doesn't get to close to the wall. As if you do
it using the line-collision, our actual player is on the wall when a
collision occurs and the view of the wall up close isn't to good...blocky
and pixelly. This keeps our players first person view a certain
distance from the walls.
So you can walk around the level and slide along the walls. You
won't get stuck if you just hit a wall slightly as you go round the corner,
it will let you slide off it. |
You have a fully functioning level - it still needs a bit more. As the
player might want to straft left or right...which we could add to the keys.
Lighting is another area we can improve upon. Adding further lighting will
make the different walls stand out more - making it more room like.
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