Detect collision object in visual object

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physics_boii
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Detect collision object in visual object

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I'd like to be able to detect when a collision object has passed into a certain box/space (a visual object would be perfect for this), is there any way that this can be implemented?
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Re: Detect collision object in visual object

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Here is one way to do it:

(1) Derive a class from btGhostObject and copy the base addOverlappingObjectInternal() method into a modified override like this:

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class TriggerObject : puclic btGhostObject {
public:
    void btGhostObject::addOverlappingObjectInternal(btBroadphaseProxy* otherProxy, btBroadphaseProxy* thisProxy) override
    {
        btCollisionObject* otherObject = (btCollisionObject*)otherProxy->m_clientObject;
        btAssert(otherObject);
        ///if this linearSearch becomes too slow (too many overlapping objects) we should add a more appropriate data structure
        int index = m_overlappingObjects.findLinearSearch(otherObject);
        if (index == m_overlappingObjects.size())
        {
            //not found
            m_overlappingObjects.push_back(otherObject);

            // BEGIN CUSTOM CODE
            std::cout << (void*)(this) << " TriggerObject: add overlap " << (void*)(otherObject) << std::endl;
            // END CUSTOM CODE
        }
    }
};
(2) Add a btGhostPairCallback to the btDynamicsWorld to enable the optional feature

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dynamicsWorld->getPairCache()->setInternalGhostPairCallback(new btGhostPairCallback());
(3) Add your TriggerObject instances to the world where necessary.

Note: by default the btGhostObject has no "shape" and adds happen on AABB overlap, as tracked by the broad-phase. To get more detailed shape overlap you would have to examine the implementation of btGhostPairCallback and modify its addOverlappingPair() method to perform a narrow-phase check before adding.
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Re: Detect collision object in visual object

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Awesome, thanks for the reply! Would this be portable to python in some way as well?
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Re: Detect collision object in visual object

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I don't know how the python stuff works. I think it uses the CAPI under the hood and if so: that would probably have to be enhanced to get your custom feature exposed. However, perhaps there is already an event you can handle in python when a "ghost overlap add" happens, dunno.
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