Hello,

I have a kinematic physX entity that seems to not use collision detection.
It has to move on entities that can form a slope, but it moves through them.
I use pXent_move for movement and pXent_rotate for the rotation.
The moving entity is a PH_RIGID with a PH_CAPSULE hull, and the NX_BF_KINEMATIC flag turned on.
the static entities are also registered, as PH_STATIC with a PH_POLY hull.

using a PH_CHAR mode is also not an option, as I would like to toggle the NX_BF_KINEMATIC flag sometimes.
This is to switch between pure physics and a controlled character.

does anybody have a clue, or a working example?
I can post code, but maybe one has a solution already.

[edit]

3Run seemed to have a similar question before,
so I better read that topic.

I have tried the example for pXent_move, that is in the manual.
the Kinematic flag still seems to do no collission detection.
link to manual
When I change:
pXent_move(actor,actor.skill4,NULL);

into
pXent_move(actor,actor.skill4,vector(0,0,-1));

the entity goes straight trough the terrain.


Is this a bug?

PhysX in GS is suck... We can just hope that it will be came better in future.

This is because the pXent_move function (This is said in the manual!) moves the entity DIRECTLY to the specified position, without applying a force to the entity. This means, in simple terms, that the function simply modifies the x, y and z coordinates of the entity, and does not perform any sort of collision detection or the like.

the manual says it performs collision detection

copy & paste from the manual:

Hmm... Then I don't know.

I haven't tried with Kinematic, but with PH_CHAR collision detection works fine

Well, I didn't want to use PH_CHAR,
because it is easier to just toggle the kinematic flag.
Also, when I turn a physic entity into a PH_CHAR, it jumps to somewhere else.