Re: [pygame] 3D SHMUP

[Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Mallett wrote:
> you're an airplane, flying over a 
> complex 3D landscape.  each tiny section of the landscape has a height, 
> stored in a 2D array.  If the airplane's height is less then the 
> landscape's height at the appropriate point, KABOOM, or "Houston, we 
> have landed.".

If you can approximate your 3D object by a point, as you're
doing here, and you only want to test it against a height
field, things certainly get a lot simpler, and you don't
really need anything fancy at all.

>   >  If you're interested in writing a
>   >  collision engine, Python probably isn't the language of choice.
>
> But I love Python...

You still get to do the fun parts in Python. Writing code
to detect collisions between arbitrary polyhedra in 3D is
not fun, it's just tedious. I know, because I've done it.

--
Greg