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Collision for characters larger than 2 units

by a.johnson465 · in Torque Game Engine · 11/19/2009 (7:20 pm) · 5 replies

My group and I have the character model for our boss character that is 10 torque units tall. Now as far as we can tell the hitbox in Torque is only about the size of the player. Is this a built in thing in Torque? Does anyone have away to make a hitbox fit a character that is larger than 2 units?

Thanks.
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Torque Owner CSMP
MP Studios
#1
11/21/2009 (2:08 pm)
The default code should work fine for any size character because it is only taking the collisionmesh (or bounds?) and returning the appropriate location of the damage.

Though looking at your post again it looks like your talking more about the ShapeBaseNameHud... I think that is what it is called, in which case I'm not too sure, try searching around for "shapebase hud".

Torque 3D Owner a.johnson465
#2
11/21/2009 (5:24 pm)
That's what we thought, however when we fire at the anywhere above the knees of the boss character, it goes right through him.

I'll try looking at that.

Thanks

Torque 3D Owner Daniel Buckmaster
#3
11/21/2009 (5:49 pm)
You'll need to specify the character's collision box size in your boss's datablock. I've forgotten the exact name of the parameter, but it's something like 'boxSize' and takes a vector ("width depth height").

Torque Owner CSMP
MP Studios
#4
11/21/2009 (7:14 pm)
Ah ok, What your looking for is the Bounding Box...
Look for this code in the player.cs
boundingBox = "1.2 1.2 2.3";
Modify this to suit your needs, I misunderstood what you were talking about earlier, a couple of tweaks to the boundingbox should have you on your way.

Torque 3D Owner a.johnson465
#5
11/25/2009 (7:30 pm)
Thanks guys, that did the trick.