[ODE] Misunderstanding?

[Megan Fox]

Since you're using it for collision only, one option is to create your plane
and other objects without bodies (geoms only), update their positions per
physics step, and manage the collisions yourself.

You would end up running collision as usual, but instead of attaching the
contact joints to bodies and letting it resolve the collisions, you would
take the contact joint data and resolve the collisions yourself (between
calling Collide and WorldStep).


... though if you're just doing collisions, and want to keep it simple, it
would almost seem like a better idea to just use OPCODE directly and not
bother with ODE until you want/need rigid body simulation.  Then you'd just
be dealing with a standard collision library, that works only with
tri-meshes (probably what you'd want for this sort of thing - I can't
imagine you'd want to model out everything with geoms).

-Megan Fox

> OK, firstly, I don't actually know if 1942 was ever
> made for Atari, the emulator I have is for the NES. My
> mistake :). In fact, I barely remember my parents
> playing on an atari 2600? way back when. Atari's kinda
> before my time.
>
> Secondly, I'm not actually interested in recreating
> the game, I'm trying to make a decent 'clone' using
> Windows, C++, OpenGL, 3DS Max and ODE.
>
> Perhaps I should have been more clear about the number
> of dimensions I'm using. I'm rendering fully 3D models
> in a fully 3D environment, but my camera is, for now,
> fixed directly above the player's plane.
>
> The player is only allowed to move in the XY plane for
> simplicity of control, and because that's what 1942
> had, but there is a 3rd dimension. I have ships that
> sit at sea-level, and the player will be able to bomb
> them.
>
> I'm not asking how the original game was made, I'm
> trying to figure out how to use ODE to simplify the
> physics and collision aspects of my game, given that
> the processor I'm using is about a billion times
> faster than an Atari (or NES for that matter).
>
> Still, thank you for taking the time to reply.
>
> $#%