[ODE] Ray question

[LR]

Hi,


Ray returns one contact for each geom coliding, of course but the near
callback is called for each object coliding with the ray.
Imagine a 5 meters ray witch tutch 5 boxes : nearcallback is called 5 times
(5*1 contact point).

Then my question was : if the first detected object is at (for exemple) 1
meter, can y change the length of the ray (to 1 meter, during the time step)
to avoid coliding test with boxes that are after the 1 meter length ? In
fact if an object is detected at a distance, it's not usefull to keep the
full ray length during this timestep ...

Laurent.



-----Message d'origine-----
De : ode-bounces at q12.org [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org] De la part de Jon
Watte (ODE)
Envoyé : jeudi 8 juin 2006 23:00
À : kurimail
Cc : ode at q12.org
Objet : Re: [ODE] Ray question

Rays only return one contact (that being the first), according to the
documentation.

Cheers,

          / h+


kurimail wrote:
> 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
>
>   
>   
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