HeightField Collision Dynamic AABB Update

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HeightField Collision Dynamic AABB Update

Postby jamesm6162 » Wed Mar 02, 2016 5:45 am

Hi Julio

I know there has been a thread on how to update a heightfield collision dynamically (see viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5117)

This works. However when updating the heights, there is no way to update the AABB of the height field, or to force it to recalculate its AABB.

So when your heights change from a range of, say [-1,1] to a range of [50,52], or even [-5,5] The local AABB will be wrong (still at [-1,1]) and you will get missed collisions.

Is there any way to get around this problem. I don't see any access to the dgCollision::SetCollisionBBox function from the Newton C interface.

Thanks

James
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Re: HeightField Collision Dynamic AABB Update

Postby Julio Jerez » Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:04 am

do you mean to refresh the entire AABB, of the height field?
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Re: HeightField Collision Dynamic AABB Update

Postby jamesm6162 » Mon Mar 07, 2016 3:53 am

Well recalculating the AABB is quite a costly operation to perform, as the code runs through all the heights to get the lowest and highest ones.

The problem is that it is only done at collision creation time, meaning any changes to the heights are not reflected in the AABB later on.

Perhaps if there was an interface to manually set the min/max heights, it could rather use those as the AABB vertical extent.

In most cases my heightfields are created with all zeros as heights, because the heights get filled dynamically later on. This means my AABB height is 0. If I could force the heightfield to a specific min/max height it would solve my problem.
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Re: HeightField Collision Dynamic AABB Update

Postby Julio Jerez » Mon Mar 07, 2016 7:45 am

If I understand the problem, you are editing the height field at runtime. and the AABB is not being update to map the change. is this the problem?

you could do a simple trick.

-before creating the height field, take elevation at point h(0, 0) and make it the size you want it to be.
-them call Create the heightField.
-then set the value to what it should be. This will make leave field AABB the size you want and will not changed after that.
I believe that should solve the problem.
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Re: HeightField Collision Dynamic AABB Update

Postby jamesm6162 » Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:09 am

Thanks. In the end that's exactly wat I did.
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