[ODE] Ray question

[kurimail]

If you are talking about changing the ray length while detecting
collisions, i think that the collisions are compute all at the same time.

And for the next callback, you don't know if there will be an object at 2
meters.

I am not sure if there is one way to tell the ray to obtain only the first
contact... i thought that rays only returned one contact :S

> Hi,
>
> I'm using ray to simulate a distance sensor, the ray is from 0 to 5
> meters.
>
> To determine what is the nearest object, i look in the nearcallback what
> is
> the current detected object, if the distace is less than the last computed
> the the "really" near object is the new one ... i think it's the good way
> (no ?)
>
> Question:
>
> when i find a contact (in the near callback) at (for exemple) 2 meters
> from
> the ray position, is it a good optimisation to change the length of the
> ray
> (using dRaySetLength) to down it to 2 meters ? To avoid detection after  2
> meters.
>
>
> Laurent.
>
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