Walls & Collision Detection (How's it work? What's involved?)

[serrath]

I want to grab some info about the player when he collides with a wall and some info about the wall (i.e. its facing, etc). I've been going through the wiki but I can't find what I'm after. Could someone link me to the relevant articles?

[beonard6]

Touching walls is similatr to touching ground.
Guess because both wall and ground have flag SOLID_BSP.
Is you're asking about func_wall, well, source code is open for you.

[serrath]

It says func_wall is outdated and I should be looking at func_brush instead? Specifically I want to determine the orientation of the plane of a surface the player bumps into. (It'd also be nice if I could tell when the player stops touching the surface.)

[beonard6]

from gamemovement.cpp:

// Slide off of the impacting object
// returns the blocked flags:
// 0x01 == floor
// 0x02 == step / wall
int CGameMovement::ClipVelocity( Vector& in, Vector& normal, Vector& out, float overbounce )
{
	float	backoff;
	float	change;
	float angle;
	int		i, blocked;
	
	angle = normal[ 2 ];

	blocked = 0x00;         	// Assume unblocked.
	if (angle > 0)			// If the plane that is blocking us has a positive z component, then assume it's a floor.
		blocked |= 0x01;	// 
	if (!angle)			// If the plane has no Z, it is vertical (wall/step)
		blocked |= 0x02;	// 
	

	// Determine how far along plane to slide based on incoming direction.
	backoff = DotProduct (in, normal) * overbounce;

	for (i=0 ; i<3 ; i++)
	{
		change = normal[i]*backoff;
		out[i] = in[i] - change; 
	}
	
	// iterate once to make sure we aren't still moving through the plane
	float adjust = DotProduct( out, normal );
	if( adjust < 0.0f )
	{
		out -= ( normal * adjust );
//		Msg( "Adjustment = %lf\n", adjust );
	}

	// Return blocking flags.
	return blocked;
}

PS: actually

[serrath]

Ah, thank you! I'm trying to implement wall-running; I've got the vector math down, I just didn't know where to find this. Many thanks!