[ODE] Newbie Capsule Question

[Brett Jones]

Thanks for the replies and advice all,
  I didnt see any reason it wouldn't be a good solution but somewhere I  read a postmortum where the programmer had choosen ODE but wrote his  own cylinder code. For my purposes that doesn't look neccessary "Whew"  :) 
  Brett

Patrick McColgan <patrick at torcinteractive.com> wrote:  If you search the mailing list archives for 'avatar' or 'character 
controller' you should find a few detailed posts with suggestions.

I think the general consensus is to keep the capsule upright (I use an 
amotor but there are posts on modifying the rotation matrix to disable 
rotations) and levitate the capsule (cast cast to ground and raise it so 
you don't get stuck on polygon edges),

Brett Jones wrote:

> Hi All,
> I was wondering if anyone had used CCylinder to represent players in a 
> game. I would like to use plain cylinders and I was able to integrate 
> the contrib but it is missing some functions and math is not my strong 
> point. In my game it would be ok to used capsules locked in upright Y 
> axis. mainly I am concernd with being able to pick a player when many 
> players are crowded together so representing players with boxes does 
> not seem like a good idea.
> Has anyone used CCylinder to represent there players? Also because the 
> game is massive multiplayer so I am worried about performance.. Any 
> suggestions.
> Brett
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