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From: Mike McCool <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Collision Detection
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This is gonna sound like a cheap way out, but it's a method I've used
with some success.

I just use VistaPro, and its accompanying MakePath program, to set up a
low-flight animation over a given terrain, then backdrop this frame by
frame into the renderer.

Since MakePath does a perfect job of collision detection, all I have to
do then is set my flying (or whatever) object into the frame, and the
illusion is that it's avoiding collision.

And MakePath is so configurable, you can even specify what KIND of object
is traveling over the given terrain.  You can get a smoothly splined up-
and-down swoop, like in a plane or a Cruise Missile, or a jostle-your-brains
out motion, as if you were in a jeep or on a mountain bike.  It's a hoot.


           ^^
      OO )
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