removal of cylinder hitvolumes? [was Soo...]

[smoth]

So . .

no more cylinders?

Gotta ask, why no more cylinders? can we still rectangle hitbox? because wouldn't the issue still be here? Cylinder has always been used for humanoid figures.

[Beherith]

Read the comments. Cylinders remain, no more ellipsoid prisms.

[smoth]

coldet: drop support for cylinders and ellipsoids

Comments were made after I posted this thread.

[SanadaUjiosan]

after I made all of CT's cruisers ellipsoid...

[Forboding Angel]

Was it hell on calculations or something?

[jK]

In case of ellipse-cylinder (xy-axis-scaled) it is solvable with medium code amount. In case of an ellipsoid it really is a pain in the ass.
Too bad boost's geometry library is far of being completed
I wonder if BulletPhysics has such functions.

PS: We don't need 100% accurate results, so I wonder how big the error is max if you use the revert-scaling-approach.

[KingRaptor]

right-circular cylinders are back at least

[Google_Frog]

I'd be happy with spheres and rectangular prisms if the AoE calculations end up making sense.

[Silentwings]

How should we set collisionvolumescales for cylinders now?

(Since only cylinders with circular cross sections are allowed the collisionvolumescales needs only two parameters, whereas it used to need 3. So does it now just take two?)

[jK]

It automatically transforms non-supported ones to either sphere, cylinders and/or boxes.

[Silentwings]

Thanks - but how to specify the cyclinder using the 'correct' parameters now? Just leave the third variable blank?

[jK]

no, the first should indicate the length iirc and the other two need to be equal.