(Newbie question) spiral staircase and player best practice

[andreas]

Hi,

anyone has experience of implementing spiral staircase (as a model) with for example
stuff falling down the staircase or perhaps player (capsule) walking up.

How did you model the staircase in bullet to get it effective? Using crude planes, chop it up
and make use of shrinkwrap?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

Andreas

[andreas]

It seems the only feasible solution would be to either chop the staircase up in segments as btConvexHull and collide them individually, or make a btCompoundShape for the entire staircase section. The approach I'm using is to load the collision as a predefined object from file.