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Collision detection in a 3D driving simulator

I need advice and resources on a 3D car simulator. Can collision can be in 2D? Would it still be realistic? The vehicles and tracks can be viewed from top-down as 2D shapes. No need for jumps or ...
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My 2D collision code does not work as expected. How do I fix it?

I have a simple 2D game with a tile-based map. I am new to game development, I followed the LazyFoo tutorials on SDL. The tiles are in a bmp file, but each tile inside it corresponds to an internal ...
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Collision resolution - Character walking on ascendent ground

I don't know if the solution to this problem is quite straight-foward but I really don't know how to handle collision resolution on a game where the player walks on an ascendent floor which is not ...
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Typical collision detection

I would like to know how is the typical collision detection of most games. For example, you control a character which can move in 2 dimensional directions (except up and down). Now lets asume he walks ...
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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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Collision Detection Game Design and Architecture

I've reading some articles about collision detection. My question here is about ideas on the design for it. Baically I have a C++ game that has a main loop with entities with an update method. Based ...
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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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XNA 2D vehicle wall collisions

I am attempting to implement collisions for my truck game, where the truck can drive around the world and hit walls surrounding the level and various randomly placed walls within the level. I am able ...
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Circle vs Edge collision detection / resolution

I made a javascript class Ball.js that handles physics interactions betweens balls as well as painting. In the v1.0, the ball vs ball collision detection and resolution is well handled. In the next ...
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Circle-Rectangle collision in a tile map game

I am making a 2D tile map based putt-putt game. I have collision detection working between the ball and the walls of the map, although when the ball collides at the meeting point between 2 tiles I ...
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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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Collision and Graphics integration

I'm a little confused about the integration between collision and graphics. They both need to share the same position in the world. The most obvious choice is the center of the entity, which is good ...
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Circle-Rectangle collision resolution

I have a non axis aligned rectangle, like a car, in my game. I have to check and resolve the collision between the rectangle and circle, which is stationary. I have found lots of ways to determine ...
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Collision organization problems

I just started playing around with c++ and some SFML. I'm going to create a 2D game with top view to test my ability and I came across a very big problem: collision detection and physics. So I see at ...
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How can I resolve collisions at different speeds, depending on the direction?

I have, for all intents and purposes, a Triangle class that objects in my scene can collide with (In actuality, the right side of a parallelogram). My collision detection and resolution code works ...
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Collision with tile corners/seams in 2D platformer

There seems to be a lot of somewhat related questions answered already, but none I read answered my exact problem. I have a 2D platformer whose world is made entirely out of tiles that are in a ...
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Collisions between moving ball and polygons

I know this is a very typical problem and that there area a lot of similar questions, but I have been looking for a while and I have not found anything that fits what I want. I am developing a 2D ...
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SAT and then what?

I am on my way to make another Arkanoid game but this time I decided that I want it a little bit more realistic than just checking intersections between AABB and inverting one vector's component on ...
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Implementing Separating Axis Theorem (SAT) and Minimum Translation Vector (MTV)

I was following codezealot's tutorial on SAT and MTV and trying to implement it myself but I've come a cropper when it comes to getting the correct MTV. Here is my example: (Cue pretty pictures...) ...
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AABB > AABB collision response?

I'm really confused about how to fix this in 3d? I want it so that I can slide along cubes but without getting caught if there's 2 adjacent cubes. I've gotten it so that I can do x collision, with ...
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Collision rectangle response

I'm having difficulties getting a moveable rectangle to collide with more than one rectangle. I'm using SFML and it has a handy function called intersects which takes 2 rectangles and returns the ...
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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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Breakout collision using 2D Rectangles?

Here is my code: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework; namespace BreakOut { class Field { public static ...
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Need some advice regarding collision detection with the sprite changing its width and height

So I'm messing around with collision detection in my tile-based game and everything works fine and dandy using this method. However, now I am trying to implement sprite sheets so my character can have ...
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Character jittering with this tile based collision code

I have been trying to get my collision code working for hours now but with every resource I have tried my character still jitters. First I tried using the platformer sample but my character still ...
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Collision Detection, player correction

I am having some problems with collision detection, I have 2 types of objects excluding the player. Tiles and what I call MapObjects. The tiles are all 16x16, where the MapObjects can be any size, but ...
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Microsoft XNA Platformer Example, is the Collsion Detection implemented accurately?

The example provided by Microsoft seems as if the collision detection (from what I can see) will have a small error. When the user collides with an Unpassable tile, the depth of the intersection is ...
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Why does my 2d collision and movement not work properly?

I'm trying to write(in c++ using sdl) a mario like game as in a tile based world with by pixel movement for the character and I've run into some problems I cannot seem to find the source of: 1.The ...
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Box 2d and really complex big shapes

I intended to use jbox2d for my project. But as I went deeper into it's manual I'd found out that it supports dynamic objects between 0.1 and 10 meters (if use scaling and assume that 0.1 is smallest ...
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Collision detection between a bunch of AABB

I have a lot of AABB bouncing on the screen. Doing collision/response between 2 AABB is fairly easy, but how do you handle this when you can be pulling AABB's apart but making them getting into ...
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How can I determine which direction a 2D collision is occurring from?

The problem is as follows: Think 2D Zelda (Links Awakening, A Link to the Past) style movement where you can run into walls from any of the four cardinal directions, or basically up, down, left, and ...
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2D platformer multiple rectangle collision cause jitter

I posted this question two weeks ago: 2D platformer corner collision and I implemented NoobsArePeople2's solution. Problem is, when player intersects two rectangles that are inside each other, he ...
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Ball collisions 'sticking' together

I have a program which simulates many bouncing balls. The balls can bounce off each other and off the sides of the container. The problem I am having is that sometimes when two balls collide, they ...
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How to resolve concurrent ramp collisions in 2d platformer?

A bit about the physics engine: Bodies are all rectangles. Bodies are sorted at the beginning of every update loop based on the body-in-motion's horizontal and vertical velocity (to avoid sticky ...
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How to separate colliding objects without creating more collisions

Suppose I use a simple discrete collision detection system where I move all objects then check for collisions. I want any colliding objects to be separated (of course) and assigned appropriate ...
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How can I determine the velocity after impact of a 2D ball collision?

Consider two balls moving towards each other. Each has a given mass and velocity. Assuming the balls collide, how can you determine what direction the balls will take afterwards? (taking into ...
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How to deal with corner collisions in 2D?

I'm writing a top down 2d XNA game. Since its my first I'm trying to write the physics and collision stuff myself to learn it. Whenever my player sprite character attempts to move into a position ...
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Collision Managers and bitmaps

I am rewriting a game I made to use a (custom) collision manager that uses the minimum displacement method. As of now, my simple manager can only recognize and act on a couple of shapes - Circles and ...
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Collision resolution in case of collision with multiple objects

I have static objects and movable objects. The collisions are detected using the separating-axis-theorem. For example, in this situation I have two static objects (in red): and a movable object ...