Plan for Gary "ChunkyKs" Briggs

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What is it? Well, the rope thing is a chain of ODE bodies, tethered at the right end. 100 or so of them. Gravity points down.
The spaceship and it's T2D collision code is copied verbatim from the spacescrollerdemo. That's 100% T2D's collision library doing all the hard work, and that's the two colliding.

Want ODE bodies and T2D Physics bodies interacting at the same time on the same screen? Knock yourself out; it's trivial!

function that-T2D-collision-thing-that-Ive-hidden-but-trust-me-it's-the-normal-one {

        %c = new tdContact();
        %c.SetNormal(getWord(%normalvec,0), getWord(%normalvec,1), 0);
        %c.SetPos(getWord(%contactpoint,0), getWord(%contactpoint,1), 0);                              

        %j = new tdJoint();
        %j.CreateContact($odeworld, $odecollisionjg, %c);
        %j.Attach(%srcObj.odeobj, %dstObj.odeobj);
}

Six lines of code. What's really neat is that this is using no collision code except T2D's; if you're familiar with ODE & dGeom, be aware that I've explicitly NOT implemented dGeom here. Torque is more than capable of doing it's own collision detection, I see no reason to duplicate effort on that front.

Well, that was fun. Only thing left to do before I release a real resource on this is to get the depth of the collision, but that's been causing me some problems.


This still builds & runs with TGE, also. After the depth issue, next thing on my list is a new ODEItem-type-thing in TGE. I'm pretty sure that this will be pretty easy. We'll have to see.

Gary (-;

UPDATE: Demos are available here: Linux Windows