Re: [Algorithms] Return of the front clip plane

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

Well this is the same thing as just making the player's collision radius
smaller.  You'd still get too close to the wall and clip it out if you
looked up/down.  Maybe not left/right though, which might be where the
thought came from.  :)

I could just not let the player look up and down, doom got away with it
right?  ;)

- Jason Zisk
- nFusion Interactive LLC


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Dibley" <RD...@ac...>
To: <gda...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 5:28 PM
Subject: RE: [Algorithms] Return of the front clip plane


> a completely mad idea, but if this is first person, then make it really
> first person ... attach the camera to the front of the viewing persons
head,
> and when they turn around the camera stays on the front of the head, and
> hence moves away from the wall.  For a real life comparison, walk up to a
> wall and turn around when you are touching it.  You will now have your
head
> a long way from the wall.  Just because people are not used to their
> characters in games behaving like real world ones doesn't mean they
> shouldn't, and maybe this is one case where if they did it would be
better.
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Zisk [mailto:zi...@n-...]
> Sent: 03 August 2000 21:08
> To: gda...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Algorithms] Return of the front clip plane
>
>
> 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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