Capsule collider orientation with btKinematicCharacterController

2020-07-29T11:13:55+00:00

Maybe I am missing something, but it seems like Bullet (just like 3D rendering engine I'm using) uses Y-up coordinate frame.
I followed some demos online and created a btKinematicCharacterController object, but DebugDraw shows that the capsule is aligned with a horizontal rather than vertical axis, even though it's supposed to be upright according to the documentation.

Using btCapsuleShapeZ instead of btCapsuleShape seems to fix the issue, but it seems like a hack.

Is this caused by the wrong orientation of the ghost object?

In general, I am struggling a lot with btKinematicCharacterController. I know it is not supported, but does anyone have a working demo with a character controller driven by Bullet? Can you give me general advice on how to get something working without writing an FPS controller from scratch?

Below is the code that I currently use to create the character:

Code:

    btTransform startTransform;    startTransform.setIdentity ();    startTransform.setOrigin (btVector3(1.5, 12.0, 0.5));    ghostObject.setWorldTransform(startTransform);    btScalar characterHeight = 1.75;    btScalar characterWidth = 0.5;    capsuleShape = std::make_unique(characterWidth, characterHeight);    ghostObject.setCollisionShape(capsuleShape.get());    ghostObject.setCollisionFlags(btCollisionObject::CF_CHARACTER_OBJECT);    auto stepHeight = btScalar(0.35);    bCharacter = std::make_unique(&ghostObject, capsuleShape.get(), stepHeight, btVector3(0.0, 1.0, 0.0));    bCharacter->setGravity(btVector3(0, -9.8f, 0));    bWorld.addCollisionObject(&ghostObject, btBroadphaseProxy::CharacterFilter, btBroadphaseProxy::StaticFilter|btBroadphaseProxy::DefaultFilter);    bWorld.addAction(bCharacter.get());

Statistics: Posted by sun_stealer — Wed Jul 29, 2020 11:13 am

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Capsule collider orientation with btKinematicCharacterController