REAL object collisions?

I am trying to design an assignment where students direct an object around one of the hedge mazes, but I have no idea how to make the hedge impenetrable. As long as the proximity functions rely on the object's center and not its skin, how can you determine proximity to the surface of the hedge, so as to deny movement thorugh it?

Okay, what you may be able to do is create a bunch of dummy objects, and place them along the hedges. And say, for example:

While true----
If "chracter" is within x meters of the dummy object
move character back x amount of meters
else do nothing.

It's a really rough sketch, but basically what it's saying is that, when the character gets to close to the hedge, the program will automatically set them back x amount of meters, thus making it impossible to go through the hedges.

Sorry if thats a little confusing, just tell me if you need any more help.

The camera is reluctant to move (forward) through the maze wall. If you are persistant, it seems to find cracks to sneak through, especially in corners. So, if the camera assumes first person view and you let the arrow keys control the camera, you will get an approximation of what you want.

Unfortunately, the camera seems quite willing to back up through walls.

Also, this only seems to work when you use the builtin event handler.

On the plus side, it seems to work for all objects.

You can supplement the builtin event handler with your own.

While the down arrow (back up) is pressed, make the camera move forward. I have used 15m with the abrupt style effectively, but there are interesting effects if you play with these arguments.

The idea is to cancel the default event handler for the down arrow.

Go to http://www.alice.org/community/showt...=3955#post3955 and see the comment on collision detection.

Dick Baldwin
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Originally Posted by mullins

You can supplement the builtin event handler with your own.

While the down arrow (back up) is pressed, make the camera move forward. I have used 15m with the abrupt style effectively, but there are interesting effects if you play with these arguments.

The idea is to cancel the default event handler for the down arrow.

That sounds quite effectiuve.... I think I should try that too!