[ODE] ODe Lib: Will it help me?

[Jon Watte (ODE)]

Al wrote:

> I want to work out in xyz the point of intersection. (collision detection)


Check out the dTriMesh collider in ODE (as inherited from the underlying 
OPCODE library). Note that the trimesh needs to be loaded into ODE, 
which limits the total size of trimeshes you can work with.

If you have gridded data, and know there's just height (no overhangs), 
then just looking up the height in the gridded data will likely be 100x 
faster, though. It's just a table look-up and interpolation.

Cheers,

			/ h+