Really Stupid Question I Can't Find the Answer To

[Enjay]

Allow me to put it this way, Enjay: if there was an 8 unit wide hallway containing a 4 radius monster it's assumed said monster can move backward and forward, but what happens if the monster tries to turn? Does he then get stuck or is the actor's relative position used to where he started?

When an actor turns in Doom, the hitbox does not (am_cheat 3 shows this) so, no, he shouldn't get stuck in that situation.

[Skunk]

Well I can't wait to get home and make a quick test level... been a while since I've done anything Doom related, this oughta be fun:

[Nash]

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I wasn't being sarcastic to FDARI... when I made that comment, I really just found it unusual that he wasn't aware about the square bounding boxes, despite having accomplished much more advanced feats with the ZDoom codebase... and as he already explained, I guess it's just that he's never had to deal with the code related to it before, seems a solid enough reason of his unawareness to the discussion at hand. And as he's already figured out, he knows that I didn't mean any disrespect when I made the remark... in fact, he knows that I look up to him a lot for source code help.

Just thought I'd clear that up. :P

Now something related to the discussion. Because of the square collision boxes, making collision boxes for cars are a little difficult, because cars are rectangular. The cars in my project are MD3s, so they need more advanced collision. I had to split the collision to 3 actors, each roughly representing the various heights of a car. I've attached them to the main actor, and they rotate along with the main actor... except that diagonal collsion will be inaccurate (they will be in "steps") because the squares don't rotate.

[Enjay]

Yes, and as you know, I too had a problem with (roughly) rectangular models versus the underlying square actor.

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f= ... 5&p=622392