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Is it possible to get the colliding sides using the separating axis theorem?

The title says it all, is it even possible to get the colliding sides? I'm checking for collisions between two OABBs, which works fine using SAT. Now I want to set the moving object's velocity to the ...
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When to detect and respond to collisions?

I've usually implemented collision detection like this in the past: Move entity Check if it collides with anything Resolve the collision by moving it back That's also the approach employed by most ...
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Collision detection logic

Edit 2 In the following picture sprite1 (the red square) is hitting the platform from the left, so: sprite1_rightEdge>platformSprite leftEdge would be true, so I can simply reposition ...
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Implementing Frame of reference for physics calculations

How would I alter physical calculations to account for frame of reference of a physical body? Currently I have a world that is a collection of rigid body objects that act on each other. There is no ...
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Is there a “box2d without physics” lib (only for collision detection)?

Box2d Collision detection algorithms are probably the best ones out there. Unfortunately, they are bundled together with a realistic physics engine that I don't need. Is there an open source project ...
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Automatically generate low detail collision meshes

I lately integrated Bullet Physics into my little game engine, but for now I only use basic shapes as spheres or boxes for collision checks. For more realistic physics I need collision meshes for all ...
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How should I calculate the new angle/direction of my ball hitting a wall? [duplicate]

I'm building a Pong game and I am stuck at how the ball should bounce when hitting a horizontal wall. I tried a few methods but none seems to work. So far I have an update method, which is called ...
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Gravity/collision problems: models jumping

I'm pretty new to Unity3D game engine and game development, so don't judge me strictly. I import a model of the rail track, add rigid body component (with mass 1 and use gravity flag) and box collider ...
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How to implement collision detection of portals?

For example, take this scenario (excuse my horrible drawing skills): This is based on "Portal", where the stickman is going through the blue portal (which is linked to the red portal), but there is ...
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Understanding Box2d Restitution & Bouncing

I'm currently trying to implement basketball bouncing into my game using Box2d (jBox2d technically), but I'm a bit confused about restitution. While trying to create the ball in the testbed first, ...
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Checking bounds of a quad

I want to know how would I tell if a quad touches another quad in my game built in Slick2D. I have a class that I named "Bounds" which has 4 "Point" objects which just store an X and a Y value and a ...
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Networked Physics - Interpolation Causes Physics Engine to Explode

A major issue I am encountering right now is that my physics engine (BEPU) and my network interpolation are conflicting with each other. The player is a physics object, and so the physics engine ...
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Resolving a collision with forces

In my 2D physics engine, I can detect AABB vs AABB collisions, and resolve them by finding the shortest penetration vector and adding it to the AABB's position. Doing this "pushes" the first AABB ...
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When and where should I calculate collision response with multiplayer physics?

I've troubles wrapping my head around multiplayer physics and collisions on the client side, so far I interpolate the state of my network entities ( position and velocity ) of the other clients based ...
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Unity3D: collider performances on mobile iOS devices

I'm experimenting with Unity3D and colliders. Unfortunately I still don't have Unity Pro version and I can't use the profiler. Consider the following situation: mobile devices (ios, iphone 3GS). an ...
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RK4 integration and Continuous Collision Detection

I'm using this method to detect collision between two AABBs. The algorithm is simple, fast and works great. It uses the relative velocity between the two objects to calculate TOI. This works fine with ...
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Determining whether two fast moving objects should be submitted for a collision check

I have a basic 2D physics engine running. It's pretty much a particle engine, just uses basic shapes like AABBs and circles, so no rotation is possible. I have CCD implemented that can give accurate ...
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Get collision details from Rectangle.Intersects()

I have a Breakout game in which, at some point, I detect the collision between the ball and the paddle with something like this: // Ball class rectangle.Intersects(paddle.Rectangle); Is there any ...
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SFX Played Once per Collision or Hit

I have a question about using Box2D (engine for LibGDX used to make realistic physics). I observed on the code that I've made for the physics here below: @Override public boolean touchUp(int screenX, ...
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How do 2D physics engines solve the problem of resolving collisions along tiled walls/floors in non-grid-based worlds?

I've been working on implementing my SAT algorithm which has been coming along well, but I've found that I'm at a wall when it comes to its actual use. There are plenty of questions regarding this ...
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Who should respond to collision: Unit or projectile?

In an RTS if a projectile hits a unit. Who should handle the collision? If projectile handles the collision, it must be aware of all possible types of units, to know what damage to inflict. For ...
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Point of contact of 2 OBBs?

I'm working on the physics for my GTA2-like game so I can learn more about game physics. The collision detection and resolution are working great. I'm now just unsure how to compute the point of ...
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2D OBB collision detection, resolving collisions?

I currently use OBBs and I have a vehicle that is a rigid body and some buildings. Here is my update() private void update() { camera.setPosition((vehicle.getPosition().x * camera.getScale()) - ...
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Circle physics and collision using vectors

This is a problem I've been having, When making a set number of filled circles at random locations on a JPanel and applying a gravity (a negative change in the y), each of the circles collide. I want ...
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Game physics / 2D Collision detection AS3

I know there are some methods you can use like hittestPoint and so on, but I want to see where my movieclip colliedes with another another movieclip. Any other methods I can use? by any chance does ...
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Trouble with AABB collision response and physics

I have been racking my brain trying to figure out a problem I am having with physics and basic AABB collision response. I am fairly close as the physics are mostly right. Gravity feels good and ...
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Updating physics for animated models

For a new game we have do set up a scene with a minimum of 30 bone animated models.(shooter) The problem is that the update process for the animated models takes too long. Thats what I do: Each ...
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Simple (and fast) dices physics

I'm programming a throw of 5 dices in Actionscript 3 + AwayPhysics (BulletPhysics port). I had a lot of fun tweaking frictions, masses etc. and in the end I found best results with more physics ...
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How to detect collision in Unity3D without rigid bodies?

The target platform of my game is mobile devices therefore I try to develop it performance oriented. It will be a strategy game so I don't really need physics in it, consequently I did not add ...
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Bullet impact or force on cube in Blender

Hoping someone here may be able to help. I'm new to Blender (and game development/3d modelling) and have been following some tutorials online to get me started. I am building a very basic FPS just to ...
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Java Collision Detection of a Slope using a Gradient [closed]

Im testing out collision detection for a game, The ball is traveling and i need to know when the ball hits a sloped line. For this example i have used the whole screen, with a sloped line going from ...
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Interpolate and collisions

Lets take the simple example of a ball bouncing off a wall. The physics is separated from the display. The physics is set to run at say 20 frames per second and the display is running faster than this ...
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How should I learn about collision detection?

If I want to use physics engine for my game then how should I go to learn collision-detection algorithms? When I read AI book for games, the book talks about collision detection, so I want to learn ...
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collision resolve sphere-aabb and aabb-aabb

I am currently working on a basic physics engine which does not consider rotations. At the moment I work on collision resolving between aabbs and spheres. Unfortunately I have no idea what a collision ...
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Efficient physics and collision detection for RTS

I'm thinking about writing my own RTS game and while I'm more or less clear about how the game engine should work, I need some directions as to how to implement physics and collision detection. Now, ...
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What is the best way to handle simultaneous collisions in a physics engine?

I'm writing a 2d physics engine in javascript so that I can learn more about physics in video games. I have it working correctly for rigid body collisions, except for if any body collides with two or ...
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What is the MTV (Minimum Translation Vector) in SAT (Seperation of axis)?

What is the MTV (Minimum Translation Vector) in SAT (Seperation of axis)? and how can i use it? Im trying to create my first game, where a ball can hit a a static brick (rectangle). Now if a ball ...
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2D Collision in Canvas - Balls Overlapping When Velocity is High

I am doing a simple experiment in canvas using Javascript in which some balls will be thrown on the screen with some initial velocity and then they will bounce on colliding with each other or with the ...
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Platformer Starter Kit - Collision Issues

I'm having trouble with my game that is based off the XNA Platformer starter kit. My game uses smaller tiles (16x16) then the original (32x40) which I'm thinking may be having an effect on collision ...
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GameObject and Components

I am creating a relatively simple game engine in C++ and Qt. I am using Irrlicht for graphics, and as of now, I will not be using any physics or audio libraries. For time's sake, I am using ...
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What is the most effective way to create a set of collision points for an aribitrary mesh?

In my project I am working on automatically deforming an arbitrary mesh with respect to another arbitrary mesh, within the context of user generated content, similar to this deformer being developed ...
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How will the velocities of two moving objects change once they collide?

I'm making a small game where things can fly around and collide. Things like boxes and so on. For each object, I have an array of all forces acting upon it, I have it's mass, it's position and it's ...
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Finding the contact point with SAT

The Separating Axis Theorem (SAT) makes it simple to determine the Minimum Translation Vector, i.e., the shortest vector that can separate two colliding objects. However, what I need is the vector ...
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Resultant Vector Algorithm for 2D Collisions

I am making a Pong based game where a puck hits a paddle and bounces off. Both the puck and the paddles are Circles. I came up with an algorithm to calculate the resultant vector of the puck once it ...
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Collision detection in 3D space

I've got to write, what can be summed up as, a compelte 3D game from scratch this semester. Up untill now i have only programmed 2D games in my spare time, the transition doesn't seem tough, the ...
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How do I handle walking up and down bridges at any angle?

I'm currently trying to create a 2D platformer puzzle game like Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-land Mayhem! within Flash. My issues reside in the bridge collision with the walking AI. The game allows ...
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Which Side Was Hit?

I am working on an Android game and I have two objects A and B (both rectangles) and when they collide I simply want to know which side of B was hit. I have detected the collision fine, but I am ...
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How do I do 3d collisions in isometric game?

I've wondered how to get basic collision detection working in an isometric game. I'm using panda3d which has very comfortable support for bullet, ode and a small builtin physics framework. The problem ...
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Effects of collisons: broken glass, damaged cars, how are they created?

My question is related in particular to achieving the effects of collision in game engine, how is this done? I have searched a bit, read from the internet and went through a few tutorials, and saw ...
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How do games using physic engines for 2d games handle platform corners?

I have seen games like latest "2'5D" sonics that handle collision detection at platform corners pretty well. The problem I'm having is that my game uses an ellipsoid as my player's body to let it ...

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