[ODE] Trimesh vs Convex Hull

[Nguyen Binh]

I 'd doubt it.
Anyway, Bullet has a good implelementation of GJK algorithm so it supports
convex shape.
It would be nice if we couple Bullet in ODE.


On 3/31/06, Mohsin Hasan <mohsin.hasan at trivor.com> wrote:
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> I'm not sure if this has been discussed earlier but wouldn't it be great
> if ODE natively supported a ConvexHull primitive. It would give better
> collision representation of a mesh compared to simple primitives besides
> being more efficient and accurate in terms of detecting collision compared
> to Trimesh. Does anyone else also think that they are more important than
> Trimesh/Trimesh.
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> If supporting ConvexHull is not possible for whatever reason, is it
> possible to do something similar using Trimesh? I mean if we can generate a
> convex hull of our geometry through whatever way and pass it as Trimesh to
> ODE, is Trimesh-Trimesh collisions for convex hull meshes accurate?
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> Mohsin
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