collision spherical x ellipsoid

[Thomas.]

Why is ellipsoid camera collision so slow? I tried checkCameraCollisionSpherical and game is running stable 54-55 fps but if I use checkCameraCollisionEllipsoid frames drops to 17 fps

[EgonOlsen]

Simply because it's much more demanding. You can play around with the recursion depth to tweak it a little bit.

[Thomas.]

it is extremly demanding, I have same result with number 1 or 5 on recursion depth... and collide offset is sets to 40

[EgonOlsen]

Well...yes. It's much heavier on the fpu (or its emulation on older devices), because it has to transform vertices of objects in question into ellipsoid space, which can be expensive on Android. What's the exact scenario in which you are using this? If it's a rather complex and huge mesh (like a level), you might want to try to use an octree for collision detection. Or you can use a alternative, simpler mesh for collision than for rendering. To do this, simply make the simple one visible and hide the complex one, do the detection and reverse the process again for rendering.

[Thomas.]

I see... I am doing first person shooter game... the "main" object has not so much polygons, but almost every object in level has about 500 polygons and those are a lot of... I will try to do another system for check player collision ...

[EgonOlsen]

Polygon count matters only if an object is the way of the translation of the ellipsoid. Everything else will be discarded pretty quickly by a bounding box check.

[Thomas.]

Thanks for explanations ... I want to do everything the most modifiable, so alternative simpler mesh can not be and check collision spherical is doing issue...

[Thomas.]

My game is much more complicated now and I want to use alternative objects for collision... but when I use obj.setVisibility(false) object is not visible, but also is not calculated for collision... how can I set object just for collision? and why jPCT-AE is not supporting for portals?

[EgonOlsen]

You have to toggle the objects, i.e. make the collision objects visible, do the detection, make them invisible again. Or use another world that only stores the collision meshes.

[Thomas.]

thanks, what will be faster world or toggle? or it is same?
PS: I have tested toggle now, but this collision running in another thread and object is blinking

[EgonOlsen]

Then either opt for an additional world, sync the rendering with the collision detection or don't do it in multiple threads. Doing this in multiple threads is asking for trouble anyway IMHO. I wouldn't recommend it.

[Thomas.]

this collision is from touch event thread

[Kaiidyn]

the touch event itself is also pretty demanding,
I dont know if you have already done so, but adding a Thread.sleep(25); to the touch method might help a little bit..

[EgonOlsen]

this collision is from touch event thread

Don't do this...doing the collision detection and especially transformations in parallel to the rendering thread is asking for trouble. I quote myself: http://www.jpct.net/forum2/index.php/topic,1994.msg14695.html#msg14695 and http://www.jpct.net/wiki/index.php/Multithreading#Thread_safety

[Thomas.]

Are possible to do some objects for collision by player "body", some objects for shoot, some for enemies,... ?
PS: solved