[ODE] ode and .x files

Aras Pranckevicius nearaz at interamotion.com
Tue Jun 17 06:24:02 2003


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I guess such solution doesn't exist... Genrally you can't take a mesh =
and automatically put a box/sphere/whatever hierarchy on it...

Instead, the most common methods used are:
1. use a single bounding object (sphere, box, capsule) - easy, but only =
for very simple cases.
2. use bounding object hierarchy; let your artists do that (eg. place =
bounds as child objects in their editor) and export with Whatever into =
WhateverFormat.
3. use triangle meshes directly (tricollider in ODE case).


Aras Pranckevicius aka NeARAZ
http://www.gim.ktu.lt/nesnausk/nearaz/
  Has anyone a generic solution for converting .x files hierarchy models =
into ode hierarchy geoms
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