Collision not working

[fireside]

I tried doing a search for collision and came up with this function for the mouse:

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private void doGravity()
{
      SimpleVector msPos=Mouse.getTransformedCenter();
      msPos.add(msHgt);
      if(world.checkCollision(msPos, dr, .6f)== Object3D.NO_OBJECT)
      {
    Mouse.translate(gravity); 
      }           
}
private void move()
{
SimpleVector a = Mouse.getZAxis();
a.scalarMul(-.15f);
a = Mouse.checkForCollisionEllipsoid(a, elipse, 2);
Mouse.translate(a);
}

The gravity part works, but the mouse walks through as in this picture:


The elipse is (2,5,2)  The five is the mouse height and works for gravity.

The platform is set for collision with this code:

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    platform.setCollisionMode(Object3D.COLLISION_CHECK_OTHERS);
    platform.setCollisionOptimization(Object3D.COLLISION_DETECTION_OPTIMIZED);

I tried setting collision for the mouse but it didn't help.  I had to use -.15 in the scalermult or else the mouse went backwards.

[EgonOlsen]

Does the mouse starts in that location or is he in front of that block in the beginning?

[fireside]

He's in front of the block and walks right through it.

[EgonOlsen]

How much in front? Make sure that the ellipsoid doesn't intersect with the block at the beginning, because the ellipsoid collision detection is a collision avoidance algorithm. It can't resolve an existing collision.

[fireside]

Way in front.  He starts at the middle of the platform.  And I can walk him all the way to the other side, turn around, and he goes through.  I know the block is doing collision.  It's combined, but I can drop the mouse from high up and it will stop on top the block if I move him over to where the block is when the program starts, so the move function isn't working for some reason.

[EgonOlsen]

And the mouse is set to COLLISION_CHECK_SELF?

[fireside]

Ha, you beat me to it.  I just tried that.  That's what it was.