Re: [Algorithms] Return of the front clip plane

[Jason Z. <zi...@n-...>]

Its wierd, for a wall this method works fine.  But for something smaller
like a tree it "feels" wrong, like you are colliding too early.  I guess its
because you can see the stuff around the tree so you have a frame of
reference?

- Jason Zisk
- nFusion Interactive LLC


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Wood" <Ste...@im...>
To: <gda...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 3:09 PM
Subject: RE: [Algorithms] Return of the front clip plane


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Zisk [mailto:zi...@n-...]
> >
> > Another solution is to just make your player's bounding
> > volume larger so you can't get close enough to stuff to
> > clip into it, this works okay but I find that you have
> > to keep the player from getting closer than 3 units with
> > a 1 unit clip because of viewport rotation (just keeping the
> > player 1 unit away is fine if you are staring straight at a
> > wall but as soon as you rotate the edges of your viewport
> > will clip it).
> >
>
> For my FPS I used a wall that I walked up to then looked up and down, then
> adjusted my collision detection to prevent the player's view from clipping
> the wall simply because of the view angle.  It seems to work fine...I
> wouldn't want to get into changing the viewport dimensions cause wouldn't
it
> distort the scene?  I'd reserve changing viewport dimensions for special
> effects like underwater wooziness.
>
> R&R
>
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